In this paper we build upon a previous approach and successive works to calculate the 1-body and 2-body electrostatic energy of ions near a metal in terms of the Thomas-Fermi screening length. We propose workable approximations suitable for molecular simulations of ionic systems close to metallic walls. Furthermore, we use this framework to calculate analytically the electrostatic contribution to the surface energy of a one dimensional crystal at a metallic wall and its dependence on the Thomas-Fermi screening length.screening length for collisions between projectile and target atom (only for application of Moliere-potential) CW depth. These calculations provide a simple interpretation for the surface energy in terms of image charges, which allows for an estimation of the interfacial properties in more complex situations of a disordered ionic liquid close to a metal surface. Teubner Verlagsgesellschaft Stuttgart- Leipzig, 1996. The counter-intuitive outcome is that electronic screening, as characterized by a molecular Thomas-Fermi length l TF, profoundly affects the wetting of ionic systems close to a metal, in line with the recent experimental observation of capillary freezing of ionic liquids in metallic confinement.
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