Coordinator(s)
Objectives
- Achieving detailed knowledge on the influence of nanoconfinement on diffusive, migrational, and advective mass and charge transport, notably due to the morphology of the porous structure, its chemical properties, wetting, and charge of the pore walls.
- Matching of state-of-the art theoretical modeling tools to selected experimental transport properties of nano- confined electrolytes.
Hypothesis
Charge transport of ions in nanoporous materials is strongly influenced by surface effects including adsorption, surface conduction, streaming currents, diffusiophoresis, and inhomogeneities in transference numbers caused by electric double layer overlap that cause concentration polarization and rectification. The best strategy to disentangle these effects is to construct model systems with near-ideal geometry.
Aim: Investigate the charging dynamics of nanoconfined systems.