This work tackles the methodological challenge of rationalizing symmetric-cell cycling data from a materials-science perspective, through experiment replication, mathematical modelling, and tomographic imaging. Specifically, we address Zn electrode in alkaline electrolyte with without adding tetrabutylammonium bromide (TBAB). additive is known literature, but its practical impact jeopardized by...

Recent studies in nonlinear electrokinetics reveal the standard theory to generally overpredict measured velocities, sometimes dramatically. Contamination of the driving surface provides a natural mechanism for electrokinetic suppression. We measure induced charge electro-osmosis over gold electrodes "contaminated" with silica layers of controlled thickness for nearly a thousand distinct condit...

Electrokinetic remediation has been increasingly used in soils and other matrices for numerous contaminants such as inorganic, organic, radionuclides, explosives and their mixtures. Several strategies were tested to improve this technology effectiveness, namely techniques to solubilize contaminants, control soil pH and also couple electrokinetics with other remediation technologies. This review...

Under the application of electric fields, the structure of electrorheological (ER) solids can be changed from the body-centered tetragonal lattice (ground state) to other lattices. For a particle in the lattice, we derive its dipole factor by taking into account both the local-field effect arising from all the other particles and the multipolar interaction between two touching particles, throug...