Understanding specific ion effects and the Hofmeister series

Surface Segregation of Dissolved Salt Ions

Höfft, O., Borodin, A., Kahnert, U., Kempter, V., Dang, L. X., & Jungwirth, P. (2006) · The Journal of Physical Chemistry B · doi:10.1021/jp061437h · Cited by 48

The solvation and ion condensation properties for sulfonated polyelectrolytes in different solvents—a computational study

Smiatek, J., Wohlfarth, A., & Holm, C. (2014) · New Journal of Physics · doi:10.1088/1367-2630/16/2/025001 · Cited by 48

Structure and Dynamics of NaCl Ion Pairing in Solutions of Water and Methanol

Kelley, M. P., Donley, A., Clark, S. B., & Clark, A. E. (2015) · The Journal of Physical Chemistry B · doi:10.1021/acs.jpcb.5b07492 · Cited by 48

Electrolyte solvents for high voltage lithium ion batteries: ion correlation and specific anion effects in adiponitrile

Krishnamoorthy, A. N., Oldiges, K., Winter, M., Heuer, A., Cekić-Lasković, I., Holm, C., & Smiatek, J. (2018) · Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics · doi:10.1039/c8cp04102d · Cited by 48

Can we use area per surfactant as a quantitative test model of specific ion effects?

Zemb, T. N., Belloni, L., Dubois, M., Aroti, A., & Leontidis, E. (2004) · Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science · doi:10.1016/j.cocis.2004.05.007 · Cited by 47

The decay of pair correlation functions in ionic fluids: A dressed ion theory analysis of Monte Carlo simulations

Ulander, J., & Kjellander, R. (2001) · The Journal of Chemical Physics · doi:10.1063/1.1350449 · Cited by 47

Polarizabilities of hydrated and free ions derived from DFT calculations

Serr, A., & Netz, R. R. (2006) · International Journal of Quantum Chemistry · doi:10.1002/qua.21121 · Cited by 46

Conductance of some alkali metal halides in dilute aqueous solution at 25°C

Pethybridge, A. D., & Spiers, D. J. (1977) · Journal of the Chemical Society Faraday Transactions 1 Physical Chemistry in Condensed Phases · doi:10.1039/f19777300768 · Cited by 46

Specific Anion Effect in Water–Nonaqueous Solvent Mixtures: Interplay of the Interactions between Anion, Solvent, and Polymer

Liu, L., Wang, T., Liu, C., Lin, K., Liu, G., & Zhang, G. (2013) · The Journal of Physical Chemistry B · doi:10.1021/jp406215c · Cited by 46

How the particle interaction forces determine soil water infiltration: Specific ion effects

Ding, W., Liu, X., Hu, F., Zhu, H., Luo, Y., Li, S., & Li, H. (2018) · Journal of Hydrology · doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2018.11.017 · Cited by 46

Ion‐Specific Aggregation of Hydrophobic Particles

López‐León, T., Ortega-Vinuesa, J. L., & Bastos‐González, D. (2012) · ChemPhysChem · doi:10.1002/cphc.201200120 · Cited by 45

Does an electronic continuum correction improve effective short-range ion-ion interactions in aqueous solution?

Bruce, E. E., & van der Vegt, N. F. A. (2018) · The Journal of Chemical Physics · doi:10.1063/1.5017101 · Cited by 45

Underscreening and hidden ion structures in large scale simulations of concentrated electrolytes

Krucker-Velasquez, E., & Swan, J. W. (2021) · The Journal of Chemical Physics · doi:10.1063/5.0061230 · Cited by 44

Insights into Ion Specificity in Water–Methanol Mixtures via the Reentrant Behavior of Polymer

Wang, T., Liu, G., Zhang, G., & Craig, V. S. J. (2011) · Langmuir · doi:10.1021/la203979d · Cited by 43

Hofmeister effect of salt mixtures on thermo-responsive poly(propylene oxide)

Moghaddam, S. Z., & Thormann, E. (2015) · Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics · doi:10.1039/c4cp05677a · Cited by 43

Specific ion effects on thermoresponsive polymer brushes: Comparison to other architectures

Murdoch, T. J., Humphreys, B. A., Johnson, E. C., Webber, G. B., & Wanless, E. J. (2018) · Journal of Colloid and Interface Science · doi:10.1016/j.jcis.2018.04.086 · Cited by 43

Application of the Specific Ion Interaction Theory (SIT) for the ionic products of aqueous electrolyte solutions of very high concentrations

Sipos, P. M. (2008) · Journal of Molecular Liquids · doi:10.1016/j.molliq.2008.04.003 · Cited by 42

Buffer and Salt Effects in Aqueous Host–Guest Systems: Screening, Competitive Binding, or Both?

Jordan, J. H., Ashbaugh, H. S., Mague, J. T., & Gibb, B. C. (2021) · Journal of the American Chemical Society · doi:10.1021/jacs.1c08457 · Cited by 42

Behavior of Weak Polyelectrolyte Brushes in Mixed Salt Solutions

Willott, J. D., Murdoch, T. J., Leermakers, F. A. M., & de Vos, W. M. (2018) · Macromolecules · doi:10.1021/acs.macromol.7b02244 · Cited by 41

Theoretical Insights into Specific Ion Effects and Strong‐Weak Acid‐Base Rules for Ions in Solution: Deriving the Law of Matching Solvent Affinities from First Principles

Miranda‐Quintana, R. A., & Smiatek, J. (2020) · ChemPhysChem · doi:10.1002/cphc.202000644 · Cited by 39

The Solubility and Stability of Amino Acids in Biocompatible Ionic Liquids

Vasantha, T., Kumar, A., Attri, P., Venkatesu, P., & Devi, R. (2013) · Protein and Peptide Letters · doi:10.2174/09298665113209990071 · Cited by 36

Specific ion effects for polyelectrolytes in aqueous and non-aqueous media: the importance of the ion solvation behavior

Krishnamoorthy, A. N., Holm, C., & Smiatek, J. (2018) · Soft Matter · doi:10.1039/c8sm00600h · Cited by 36

Lysozyme conformational changes with ionic liquids: Spectroscopic, small angle x-ray scattering and crystallographic study

Han, Q., Smith, K. M. L., Darmanin, C., Ryan, T. M., Drummond, C. J., & Greaves, T. L. (2020) · Journal of Colloid and Interface Science · doi:10.1016/j.jcis.2020.10.024 · Cited by 35

Competitive specific ion effects in mixed salt solutions on a thermoresponsive polymer brush

Robertson, H., Johnson, E. C., Gresham, I. J., Prescott, S. W., Nelson, A. R. J., Wanless, E. J., & Webber, G. B. (2020) · Journal of Colloid and Interface Science · doi:10.1016/j.jcis.2020.10.092 · Cited by 34

Comparative analysis of salt cleaning and osmotic backwash on calcium-bridged organic fouling in nanofiltration process

Lee, H., Im, S.-J., Lee, H., et al. (2021) · Desalination · doi:10.1016/j.desal.2021.115022 · Cited by 33

Amplification of Hofmeister Effect by Alcohols

Xu, Y., & Liu, G. (2014) · The Journal of Physical Chemistry B · doi:10.1021/jp504317j · Cited by 31

Counterion Specificity of Polyelectrolyte Brushes: Role of Specific Ion‐Pairing Interactions

Kou, R., Zhang, J., Chen, Z., & Liu, G. (2018) · ChemPhysChem · doi:10.1002/cphc.201701256 · Cited by 31

Re-entrant swelling and redissolution of polyelectrolytes arises from an increased electrostatic decay length at high salt concentrations

Liu, G., Parsons, D. F., & Craig, V. S. J. (2020) · Journal of Colloid and Interface Science · doi:10.1016/j.jcis.2020.06.072 · Cited by 31

Specific Ion Effects in Different Media: Current Status and Future Challenges

Miranda‐Quintana, R. A., & Smiatek, J. (2021) · The Journal of Physical Chemistry B · doi:10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c07957 · Cited by 29

Combined Experimental and Theoretical Study of Weak Polyelectrolyte Brushes in Salt Mixtures

Willott, J. D., Humphreys, B. A., Webber, G. B., Wanless, E. J., & de Vos, W. M. (2019) · Langmuir · doi:10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b03838 · Cited by 28

Beneficial properties of solvents and ions for lithium ion and post-lithium ion batteries: Implications from charge transfer models

Miranda‐Quintana, R. A., & Smiatek, J. (2021) · Electrochimica Acta · doi:10.1016/j.electacta.2021.138418 · Cited by 28

Temperature dependent specific ion effects in mixed salt environments on a thermoresponsive poly(oligoethylene glycol methacrylate) brush

Johnson, E. C., Murdoch, T. J., Gresham, I. J., Humphreys, B. A., Prescott, S. W., Nelson, A. R. J., Webber, G. B., & Wanless, E. J. (2019) · Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics · doi:10.1039/c8cp06644b · Cited by 27

Mechanistic Insights into Amplification of Specific Ion Effect in Water–Nonaqueous Solvent Mixtures

Liu, L., Wang, T., Liu, C., Lin, K., Ding, Y., Liu, G., & Zhang, G. (2013) · The Journal of Physical Chemistry B · doi:10.1021/jp311841m · Cited by 26

Gold Nanoparticles Decorated with Oligo(ethylene glycol) Thiols: Enhanced Hofmeister Effects in Colloid−Protein Mixtures

Zhang, F., Skoda, M. W. A., Jacobs, R. M. J., Dressen, D. G., Martin, R. A., Martin, C. M., Clark, G. F., Lamkemeyer, T., & Schreiber, F. (2009) · The Journal of Physical Chemistry C · doi:10.1021/jp810869h · Cited by 26

Lewis Strength Determines Specific-Ion Effects in Aqueous and Nonaqueous Solvents

Gregory, K. P., Webber, G. B., Wanless, E. J., & Page, A. J. (2019) · The Journal of Physical Chemistry A · doi:10.1021/acs.jpca.9b04004 · Cited by 26

Contact Ion Pair Formation Is Not Necessarily Stronger than Solvent Shared Ion Pairing

Judd, K. D., Gonzalez, N. M., Yang, T., & Cremer, P. S. (2022) · The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters · doi:10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c03576 · Cited by 26

Direct measurement of surface forces: Recent advances and insights

Lin, W., & Klein, J. E. (2021) · Applied Physics Reviews · doi:10.1063/5.0059893 · Cited by 25

Specific Ion Effects and the Law of Matching Solvent Affinities: A Conceptual Density Functional Theory Approach

Smiatek, J. (2020) · The Journal of Physical Chemistry B · doi:10.1021/acs.jpcb.9b10886 · Cited by 24

Anion binding to ubiquitin and its relevance to the Hofmeister effects

Yao, W., Wang, K., Wu, A., Reed, W. F., & Gibb, B. C. (2020) · Chemical Science · doi:10.1039/d0sc04245e · Cited by 24

Dielectric permittivity of aqueous solutions of electrolytes probed by THz time-domain and FTIR spectroscopy

Ninno, A. D., Nikollari, E., Missori, M., & Frezza, F. (2020) · Physics Letters A · doi:10.1016/j.physleta.2020.126865 · Cited by 23

Deconstructing Free Energies in the Law of Matching Water Affinities

Shi, Y., & Beck, T. L. (2017) · The Journal of Physical Chemistry B · doi:10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b00104 · Cited by 22

The direction of influence of specific ion effects on a pH and temperature responsive copolymer brush is dependent on polymer charge

Johnson, E. C., Gresham, I. J., Prescott, S. W., Nelson, A. R. J., Wanless, E. J., & Webber, G. B. (2021) · Polymer · doi:10.1016/j.polymer.2020.123287 · Cited by 20

Electronic Properties of Protein Destabilizers and Stabilizers: Implications for Preferential Binding and Exclusion Mechanisms

Miranda‐Quintana, R. A., & Smiatek, J. (2021) · The Journal of Physical Chemistry B · doi:10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c06295 · Cited by 19

On the modified Poisson–Boltzmann closure for primitive model electrolytes at high concentration

Outhwaite, C. W., & Bhuiyan, L. B. (2021) · The Journal of Chemical Physics · doi:10.1063/5.0054203 · Cited by 18

Physicochemical characterization of green sodium oleate-based formulations. Part 2. Effect of anions

Tatini, D., Ciardi, D., Sofroniou, C., Ninham, B. W., & Nostro, P. L. (2022) · Journal of Colloid and Interface Science · doi:10.1016/j.jcis.2022.01.135 · Cited by 17

Masking specific effects of ionic liquid constituents at the solid–liquid interface by surface functionalization

Katana, B., Takács, D., Bobbink, F. D., Dyson, P. J., Alsharif, N. B., Tomšič, M., & Szilágyi, I. (2020) · Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics · doi:10.1039/d0cp02805c · Cited by 15

Bayesian unsupervised learning reveals hidden structure in concentrated electrolytes

Jones, P., Coupette, F., Härtel, A., & Lee, A. A. (2021) · The Journal of Chemical Physics · doi:10.1063/5.0039617 · Cited by 15

Quantum Simulations of Hydrogen Bonding Effects in Glycerol Carbonate Electrolyte Solutions

Eisenhart, A. E., & Beck, T. L. (2021) · The Journal of Physical Chemistry B · doi:10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c10942 · Cited by 15

Effect of sodium thiocyanate and sodium perchlorate on poly( N -isopropylacrylamide) collapse

Pica, A., & Graziano, G. (2019) · Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics · doi:10.1039/c9cp05706d · Cited by 14

Hofmeister Anion Effect on the Formation of Zeolite Beta

Toktarev, A. V., & Ечевский, Г. В. (2008) · Studies in surface science and catalysis · doi:10.1016/s0167-2991(08)80169-3 · Cited by 12

On the dissociation degree of ionic solutions considering solvation effects

Landstorfer, M. (2018) · Electrochemistry Communications · doi:10.1016/j.elecom.2018.05.011 · Cited by 9

Role of Water in the Lyotropic Liquid Crystalline Mesophase of Lithium Salts and Non-ionic Surfactants

Topuzlu, E. Y., Okur, H. İ., Ülgüt, B., & Dag, Ö. (2021) · Langmuir · doi:10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c02411 · Cited by 9

Microscopic approach for low-frequency dielectric constant of liquid water

Tran, T. N., & Tuan, L. (2019) · Physics and Chemistry of Liquids · doi:10.1080/00319104.2019.1675156 · Cited by 6

Computational optimization of DEK1 calpain domain solubility through integrated structural modelling and data-driven targeted mutagenesis

Dabiri, M., Levarski, Z., Struhárňanská, E., Demko, V., Beneš, V., Turňa, J., & Stuchlík, S. (2026) · Scientific Reports · doi:10.1038/s41598-026-38805-z