The nonmonotonic concentration dependence of the mean activity coefficient of electrolytes is a result of a balance between solvation and ion-ion correlations

• Published in: The Journal of chemical physics Vol. 133; no. 15; p. 154507
• Main Authors: Vincze, Julianna, Valiskó, Mónika, Boda, Dezso
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 21.10.2010

We propose a simple model to explain the nonmonotonic concentration dependence of the mean activity coefficient of simple electrolytes without using any adjustable parameters. The primitive model of electrolytes is used to describe the interaction between ions computed by the adaptive grand canonica...