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We thank Kevin Leung for his contribution to some of the work reviewed here. We gratefully acknowledge the financial support from the National Science Foundation (CHE-0718724) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DE-SC-0004406).

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Daub, C.D., Bratko, D., Luzar, A. (2011). Nanoscale Wetting Under Electric Field from Molecular Simulations. In: Kirchner, B., Vrabec, J. (eds) Multiscale Molecular Methods in Applied Chemistry. Topics in Current Chemistry, vol 307. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/128_2011_188

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