The Effect of Salinity on the Dielectric Permittivity of Nanoconfined Geofluids

Alireza Chogani, Helen E King, Aleksandar Živković, Oliver Plümper · 2024

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Alireza Chogani, Helen King, Aleksandar Živković, and Oliver Plümper asked how salt changes water trapped in tiny rock pores in a 2024 study. Water in such pores acts oddly: its response to an electric field differs by direction. Since real Earth fluids hold salt, the pure water picture may not tell the full story.

They ran atom level simulations of salty water in thin calcite slits. Salt had only a weak effect on the response in both directions. The charge layers and the tilt of water near the walls also barely moved. The team says pure water data can still guide work on real fluids in porous rock.

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CREATORAlireza Chogani, Helen E King, Aleksandar Živković, Oliver Plümper
YEAR2024
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE38 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11587090

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