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Switching the Structural Force in Ionic Liquid-Solvent Mixtures by Varying Composition.

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The structure and interactions in electrolytes at high concentration have implications from energy storage to biomolecular interactions. However, many experimental observations are yet to be explained in these mixtures, which… Click to show full abstract

The structure and interactions in electrolytes at high concentration have implications from energy storage to biomolecular interactions. However, many experimental observations are yet to be explained in these mixtures, which are far beyond the regime of validity of mean-field models. Here, we study the structural forces in a mixture of ionic liquid and solvent that is miscible in all proportions at room temperature. Using the surface force balance to measure the force between macroscopic smooth surfaces across the liquid mixtures, we uncover an abrupt increase in the wavelength above a threshold ion concentration. Below the threshold concentration, the wavelength is determined by the size of the solvent molecule, whereas above the threshold, it is the diameter of a cation-anion pair that determines the wavelength.

Keywords: ionic liquid; liquid; switching structural; liquid solvent; solvent; force

Journal Title: Physical review letters
Year Published: 2017

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