Coulombic ordering of the liquid is broken tagged posts

Partial breaking of the Coulombic ordering of ionic liquids confined in carbon nanopores. Nature Materials, 2017; DOI: 10.1038/nmat4974

Scientists have taken a big step towards creating the next generation of batteries, as well as more effective water treatment and better alternative energy after defying one of nature’s most fundamental rules on an atomic scale. The international team has found a way to avoid the established principle that particles of the same charge repel each other – and opposite charges attract.

Charged atoms or molecules (ions) normally take on what is called Coulombic ordering where they sequence themselves in positive and negative succession along a straight line...