Table 2.

Decomposition of potential of mean force into contributions from water, plates, anions, and cations. All values for ΔW are calculated using Equation 7 and are expressed in kcal/mol.

System	Δ W plate	Δ W water	Δ W an	Δ W cat	Δ W tot
Pure water	−14.89	−38.24	0.00	0.00	−53.13
NaCl 1M	−14.83	−41.08	−0.14	0.13	−55.92
NaI 1M	−14.87	−37.67	−2.51	0.13	−54.92
NaCl 3M	−14.87	−43.44	−0.77	0.37	−58.72
NaI 3M	−14.87	−37.25	−5.61	0.40	−57.33