Nonreciprocal interactions induced by water in confinement
Felipe Jiménez-Ángeles, Katherine J. Harmon, Trung Dac Nguyen, Paul Fenter, Monica Olvera de la Cruz
Abstract
The authors show that polarizable and nonpolarizable ions near graphene in water produce nonsymmetric interactions when exchange positions. This broken symmetry happens for intercalated and physisorbed ions.
Topics & Concepts
Chemical physicsPhysicsMaterials scienceIonCondensed matter physicsSymmetry (geometry)ChemistryPolarizabilityMolecular physicsWork (physics)Dispersion (optics)GrapheneSpectral lineMolecular dynamicsAtomic physicsNanotechnologyElectrostatics and Colloid InteractionsNanopore and Nanochannel Transport StudiesSpectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies