Colloquium: The physics of charge inversion in chemical and biological systems

AY Grosberg, TT Nguyen, BI Shklovskii - Reviews of modern physics, 2002‏ - APS
The authors review recent advances in the physics of strongly interacting charged systems
functioning in water at room temperature. In these systems, many phenomena go beyond …

Neutral and charged polymers at interfaces

RR Netz, D Andelman - Physics reports, 2003‏ - Elsevier
Chain-like macromolecules (polymers) show characteristic adsorption properties due to their
flexibility and internal degrees of freedom, when attracted to surfaces and interfaces. In this …

Electrostatic correlations: from plasma to biology

Y Levin - Reports on progress in physics, 2002‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Electrostatic correlations play an important role in physics, chemistry and biology. In
plasmas they result in thermodynamic instability similar to the liquid–gas phase transition of …

Effective interactions between electric double layers

JP Hansen, H Löwen - Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, 2000‏ - annualreviews.org
This review summarizes and assesses recent theoretical and experimental advances, with
special emphasis on the effective interaction between charge-stabilized colloids, in the bulk …

[PDF][PDF] DNA-inspired electrostatics

WM Gelbart, RF Bruinsma, PA Pincus… - Physics today, 2000‏ - researchgate.net
U:“physiological” conditions (a 0.1 molar solution of NaCl), a DNA molecule takes on the
form of a disordered coil with a radius of gyration of several micrometers; if any lengths of the …

Statics and dynamics of strongly charged soft matter

H Boroudjerdi, YW Kim, A Naji, RR Netz… - Physics reports, 2005‏ - Elsevier
Soft matter materials, such as polymers, membranes, proteins, are often electrically charged.
This makes them water soluble, which is of great importance in technological application …

Electrostatistics of counter-ions at and between planar charged walls: From Poisson-Boltzmann to the strong-coupling theory

RR Netz - The European Physical Journal E, 2001‏ - Springer
The Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) approach gives asymptotically exact counter-ion density
profiles around macroscopic charged objects and forces between macroscopic charged …

Like-charge attraction between polyelectrolytes induced by counterion charge density waves

TE Angelini, H Liang, W Wriggers… - Proceedings of the …, 2003‏ - pnas.org
Electrostatics in aqueous media is commonly understood in terms of screened Coulomb
interactions, where like-charged objects, such as polyelectrolytes, always repel. These …

Perspective: Coulomb fluids—weak coupling, strong coupling, in between and beyond

A Naji, M Kanduč, J Forsman… - The Journal of chemical …, 2013‏ - pubs.aip.org
We present a personal view on the current state of statistical mechanics of Coulomb fluids
with special emphasis on the interactions between macromolecular surfaces, concentrating …

Wigner crystal model of counterion induced bundle formation of rodlike polyelectrolytes

BI Shklovskii - Physical review letters, 1999‏ - APS
A simple electrostatic theory of condensation of rodlike polyelectrolytes under influence of
polyvalent counterions is proposed. It is based on the idea that counterions form a Wigner …