The physical properties of organic nanotubes attract increasing attention due to their potential benefit in technology, biology and medicine. We study the effect of ion size on the electrical properties of cylindrical nanotubes filled with electrolyte solution within a modified Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) approach. For comparison purposes, small hollow nanospheres filled with electrolyte solution ar...

The charging and aggregation properties of boron nitride nanospheres (BNNSs) were investigated in the presence electrolytes different compositions valences aqueous suspensions. influence mono- multivalent cations (counterions) anions (coions) on colloidal stability negatively charged particles was studied over a wide range salt concentrations. For monovalent ions, similar trends determined irre...

Molecular quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) is a promising paradigm for realizing molecular electronics. In molecular QCA, binary information is encoded in the distribution of intramolecular charge, and Coulomb interactions between neighboring molecules combine to create long-range correlations in charge distribution that can be exploited for signal transfer and computation. Appropriate mixed...

A hexagonal liquid crystal of DNA fragments (double-stranded, 150 basepairs) with tetramethylammonium (TMA) counterions was investigated with small angle neutron scattering (SANS). We obtained the structure factors pertaining to the DNA and counterion density correlations with contrast matching in the water. Molecular dynamics (MD) computer simulation of a hexagonal assembly of nine DNA molecul...

Given the exceptional potential of dendrimer macromolecules for numerous biomedical applications, we performed extensive coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations to investigate the role of electrostatic interactions in complexes comprised of cationic dendrimers with oppositely charged linear polyelectrolytes. For this purpose, we varied the nature of polyelectrolytes by considering both mo...

N-dodecyl-N,N-dimethyl-N-benzylammonium halides (DBeAX), like many other amphiphilic quaternary ammonium salts, show biological activity. One of these halides is a major component of "benzalkonium chloride", which is widely used as an antiseptic in pharmaceutical preparations. The mechanism responsible for the antimicrobial action of surfactants is not clearly understood, particularly the role ...

The key to ultrabright fluorescent nanomaterials is the control of dye emission in the aggregated state. Here, lipophilic rhodamine B derivatives are assembled into nanoparticles (NPs) using tetraphenylborate counterions with varied fluorination levels that should tune the short-range dye ordering. Counterion fluorination is found to drastically enhance the emission characteristics of these NPs...

Despite its importance, the understanding of ionic cloud distribution close to a charged macroion under physiological salt conditions has remained very limited especially for strongly coupled systems with, for instance, multivalent counterions. Here we present a formalism that predicts both counterion and coion distributions in the vicinity of a charged macroion for an arbitrary amount of added...

The diffusiophoresis of a soft particle governed by an imposed ionic concentration gradient is studied based on modified ion transport equation. surface the rigid core considered to be hydrophobic, which coated with charged polyelectrolyte layer (PEL) whose dielectric constant different from dispersion medium. This step-change in PEL and medium creates partitioning effect. governing equations c...