Like-charge attraction between polyelectrolytes induced by counterion charge density waves
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Like-charge attraction between polyelectrolytes induced by counterion charge density waves.
Electrostatics in aqueous media is commonly understood in terms of screened Coulomb interactions, where like-charged objects, such as polyelectrolytes, always repel. These intuitive expectations are based on mean field theories, such as the Poisson-Boltzmann formalism, which are routinely used in colloid science and computational biology [Israelachvili, J. (1992) Intermolecular and Surface Forc...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1533355100