Large-scale structure formation in ionic solution and its role in electrolysis and conductivity
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2019
Abstract
That water may not be an inert medium was indicated by the presence at water’s interfaces a negatively charged solute free zone of several hundred microns in thickness called the exclusion zone (EZ). Further evidence was demonstrated by Ovchinnikova’s experiments (2009) showing that water can store and release substantial amount of charge. We demonstrate that the charge storage capacity of water arises from highly stable large-scale ionic structures with measurable charge imbalances and discrete levels of charge density. We also show evidence that the charge zones formation requires ionic solutes, and their formation correlate to large change in conductivity, by as much as 250%. Our experiments indicate that large-scale structuring plays a pivotal role in electrolysis and conductivity in ionic solution. We propose that water is an electrochemically active medium and present a new model of electrolysis and conductivity in ionic solution. © 2019 Yee et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Keywords
chemical parameters, chemical structure, conductance, controlled study, correlation analysis, density, electrochemistry, electrolysis, exclusion zone, solute
Divisions
CHEMISTRY,PHYSICS
Publication Title
PLoS ONE
Volume
14
Issue
3
Publisher
Public Library of Science