Spontaneous Charging and Crystallization of Water Droplets in Oil

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2008-07-29

arxiv.org/abs/0807.4675v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

10 pages, 7 figures, submitted for publication

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.3009762

We study the spontaneous charging and the crystallization of spherical micron-sized water-droplets dispersed in oil by numerically solving, within a Poisson-Boltzmann theory in the geometry of a spherical cell, for the density profiles of the cations and anions in the system. We take into account screening, ionic Born self-energy differences between oil and water, and partitioning of ions over the two media. We find that the surface charge density of the droplet as induced by the ion partitioning is significantly affected by the droplet curvature and by the finite density of the droplets. We also find that the salt concentration and the dielectric constant regime in which crystallization of the water droplets is predicted is enhanced substantially compared to results based on the planar oil-water interface, thereby improving quantitative agreement with recent experiments.

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