An understanding of molecular interactions is essential for insight into biological systems at
the molecular scale. Among the various components of molecular interactions, electrostatics …

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 …

Membrane vesicles composed of fatty acids can be made to grow and divide under
laboratory conditions, and thus provide a model system relevant to the emergence of cellular …

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 …

Intermediate filaments are common structural elements found in abundance in all metazoan
cells, where they form networks that contribute to the elasticity. Here, we report …

Negatively charged globular proteins in solution undergo a condensation upon adding
trivalent counterions between two critical concentrations C* and C**, C*< C**. This reentrant …

MXenes, a new class of 2D materials, have recently attracted increasing attention as
promising adsorbents for environmental remediation. It has been previously demonstrated …

Charged soft-matter systems—such as colloidal dispersions and charged polymers—are
dominated by attractive forces between constituent like-charged particles when neutralizing …

The effective interactions and phase behavior of protein solutions under strong electrostatic
coupling conditions are difficult to understand due to the complex charge pattern and …

Since about 170 years, salts were used to create supersaturated solutions and crystallize
proteins. The dehydrating effect of salts as well as their kosmotropic or chaotropic character …