Dipolar depletion effect on the differential capacitance of carbon based materials

Details Dipolar depletion effect on the differential capacitance of carbon based materials Dipolar depletion effect on the differential capacitance of carbon based materials

2012-03-10

arxiv.org/abs/1203.2285v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

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The remarkably low experimental values of the capacitance data of carbon based materials in contact with water solvent needs to be explained from a microscopic theory in order to optimize the efficiency of these materials. We show that this experimental result can be explained by the dielectric screening deficiency of the electrostatic potential, which in turn results from the interfacial solvent depletion effect driven by image dipole interactions. We show this by deriving from the microscopic system Hamiltonian a non-mean-field dipolar Poisson-Boltzmann equation. This can account for the interaction of solvent molecules with their electrostatic image resulting from the dielectric discontinuity between the solvent medium and the substrate. The predictions of the extended dipolar Poisson-Boltzmann equation for the differential capacitance are compared with experimental data and good agreement is found without any fitting parameters.

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