Large, hydrophilic polyoxoanions with high solubility in water and/or other polar solvents
demonstrate unique solution behavior by self-assembling into single layer, hollow, spherical …

This review summarizes and assesses recent theoretical and experimental advances, with
special emphasis on the effective interaction between charge-stabilized colloids, in the bulk …

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 …

Helices are essential building blocks of living organisms, be they molecular fragments of
proteins (α-helices), macromolecules (DNA and collagen), or multimolecular assemblies …

Electrostatics in aqueous media is commonly understood in terms of screened Coulomb
interactions, where like-charged objects, such as polyelectrolytes, always repel. These …

The mechanical properties of self-assembled fibrillar networks are influenced by the specific
intermolecular interactions that modulate fiber entanglements. We investigate how changing …

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 …

Charges on biological polymers in physiologically relevant solution conditions are strongly
screened by water and salt solutions containing counter-ions. However, the entropy of these …

▪ Abstract Toroidal DNA condensates have attracted the attention of biophysicists,
biochemists, and polymer physicists for more than thirty years. In the biological community …

It is known empirically that multivalent ions generate attractions between like-charged
polyelectrolytes, with different valence requirements for different systems. How multivalent …