{"id":212437,"date":"2025-04-25T22:04:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T03:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/ultrafast-optical-technique-reveals-how-electrical-double-layers-form-in-liquids"},"modified":"2025-04-25T22:04:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T03:04:30","slug":"ultrafast-optical-technique-reveals-how-electrical-double-layers-form-in-liquids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/ultrafast-optical-technique-reveals-how-electrical-double-layers-form-in-liquids","title":{"rendered":"Ultrafast optical technique reveals how electrical double layers form in liquids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ultrafast-optical-technique-reveals-how-electrical-double-layers-form-in-liquids.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Charged surfaces in contact with liquids\u2014such as biological cell walls or battery electrodes\u2014attract oppositely charged ions from the liquid. This creates two distinct charged regions: the surface itself and a counter-charged region in the liquid: the so-called electrical double layer. While pivotal to energy storage devices, the speed of its formation has remained elusive.<\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers has now developed a light-based technique to observe this ultrafast process. The results validate previous models and extend their applicability to diverse systems, from <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/biological+membranes\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">biological membranes<\/a> to next-generation <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/energy+storage+devices\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">energy storage devices<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The work is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.adu5781\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charged surfaces in contact with liquids\u2014such as biological cell walls or battery electrodes\u2014attract oppositely charged ions from the liquid. This creates two distinct charged regions: the surface itself and a counter-charged region in the liquid: the so-called electrical double layer. While pivotal to energy storage devices, the speed of its formation has remained elusive. A [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}