Charge-Fluctuation-Induced Nonanalytic Bending Rigidity

Charge–Fluctuation–Induced Non–analytic Bending Rigidity

In this Letter, we consider a neutral system of mobile positive and negative charges confined on the surface of curved films. This may be an appropriate model for: i) a highly charged membrane whose counterions are confined to a sheath near its surface; ii) a membrane composed of an equimolar mixture of anionic and cationic surfactants in aqueous solution. We find that the charge fluctuations c...

Charge-Induced Fluctuation Forces in Graphitic Nanostructures

D. Drosdoff, Igor V. Bondarev, Allan Widom, Rudolf Podgornik, and Lilia M. Woods Department of Physics, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida 33620, USA Department of Mathematics and Physics, North Carolina Central University, Durham, North Carolina 27707, USA Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA Department of Theoretical Physics, Jozef Stefan I...

Bending tensions and the bending rigidity of fluid membranes

It is shown theoretically that the lateral tension associated with bending

Charge-induced reversible bending in nanoporous alumina-aluminum composite

Nonmonotoic fluctuation-induced interactions between dielectric slabs carrying charge disorder.

We investigate the effect of monopolar charge disorder on the classical fluctuation-induced interactions between randomly charged net-neutral dielectric slabs and discuss various generalizations of recent results [A. Naji et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 060601 (2010)] to highly inhomogeneous dielectric systems with and without statistical disorder correlations. We shall focus on the specific case...