Where Do the Ions Reside in a Highly Charged Droplet?

15 July 2019, Version 2
This content is a preprint and has not undergone peer review at the time of posting.

Abstract

Droplets in atmospheric and electrosprayed aerosols carry more often than less, a multitude of ions. We address the question of the location of a collection of ions in charged aqueous droplets with linear dimensions in the nanometer
range using atomistic molecular dynamics and analytical theory. All the details of the computations have been described in the manuscript.

Keywords

charged mesoscopic clusters
nanodrops
electrosprayed droplets
mass spectrometry
ion solvation
ion distribution
Rayleigh limit
charged droplet electric field
Non-linear Poisson-Boltzmann equation
aqueous clusters
aerosols

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