Ionic effects on the electric field needed to orient dielectric lamellae

Details Ionic effects on the electric field needed to orient dielectric lamellae Ionic effects on the electric field needed to orient dielectric lamellae

2010-04-28

arxiv.org/abs/1004.5158v1

J. Chem. Phys 132 (2010)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

To be published in the Journal of Chemical Physics.

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.3383243

We consider the effect of mobile ions on the applied potential needed to reorient a lamellar system of two different materials placed between two planar electrodes. The reorientation occurs from a configuration parallel to the electrodes favored by surface interactions to an orientation perpendicular to the electrodes favored by the electric field. The system consists of alternating A and B layers with different dielectric constants. The mobile ions are assumed to be insoluble in the B layers and hence confined to the A layers. We find that the ions reduce the needed voltage most strongly when they are constrained such that each A lamella is electrically neutral. In this case, a macroscopic separation of charge and its concomitant lowering of free energy, is attained only in the perpendicular orientation. When the ions are free to move between different A layers, such that charge neutrality is only required globally, their effect is smaller and depends upon the preferred surface interaction of the two materials. Under some conditions, the addition of ions can actually stabilize the parallel configuration. Our predictions are relevant to recent experiments conducted on lamellar phases of diblock copolymer films with ionic selective impurities.

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