Abstract
In this paper, we demonstrate that nontrivial interactions between steric effect and electrical-double-layer (EDL) overlap phenomena may augment the effective extent of EDL overlap in narrow fluidic confinements to a significant extent by virtue of rendering the channel centerline potential tending to the ζ potential in a limiting sense as the steric effect progressively intensifies. Such a behavior may result in a virtually uniform (undiminished) magnitude of the EDL potential across the entire channel height and may cause lowering of the total charge within the EDL.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 012501 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Physical review E: Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics |
| Volume | 84 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2011 |
Keywords
- METIS-278501
- IR-78898