This potential has a short range repulsive part due to the electrostatics and a long-range attractive part due to the dipolar interaction as described in [? ]. It is expressed in units of kBT . We provide below the values of the experimental parameters entering in this potential corresponding to the τ = 2s experiment described in the main text. The electrostatic part of the potential is obtaine...

In their seminal paper of 1923, Debye and Hückel provided the first appropriate description effect ionic strength on thermodynamic properties dilute electrolyte solutions. This landmark work paved way for what was later called primitive model electrolytes. At this level, an solution is modeled as a collection charged hard spheres in dielectric continuum that manifests itself only through its co...

A system of three electrolytes separated by two parallel planes is considered. Each region is described by a dielectric constant and a Coulomb fluid in the Debye-Hückel regime. In their book Dispersion Forces, Mahanty and Ninham have given the van der Waals free energy of this system. We rederive this free energy by a different method, using linear response theory and the electrostatic Maxwell ...

A simple analytical approach to estimate thermodynamic properties of model Yukawa systems is presented. The approach extends the traditional Debye-Hückel theory into the regime of moderate coupling and is able to qualitatively reproduce thermodynamics of Yukawa systems up to the fluidsolid phase transition. The simplistic equation of state (pressure equation) is derived and applied to the hydro...

We present several aspects of the screening of charged macromolecules in an electrolyte. After a review of the basic mean field approach, based on the linear Debye-Hückel theory, we consider the case of highly charged macromolecules, where the linear approximation breaks down and the system is described by the full nonlinear Poisson-Boltzmann equation. Some analytical results for this nonlinear...

The conclusion of classical Debye-Hückel theory that a phase separation may occur in highly unsymmetrical plasmas or electrolytes is shown to be false and to arise from a serious error in the treatment of the interaction of pairs of the most highly charged ions. After an approximate correction for this error, no phase separation is predicted. Specific application to iron in the solar plasmas is...

A simple analytical approach to estimate thermodynamic properties of model Yukawa systems is presented. The approach extends the traditional Debye-Hückel theory into the regime of moderate coupling and is able to qualitatively reproduce thermodynamics of Yukawa systems up to the fluid-solid phase transition. The simplistic equation of state (pressure equation) is derived and applied to the hydr...

An analysis is given of several biologically important processes, connected with the crystallization and kinetics of liophilization in aqueous physiological solutions. These are glass formation and vitrification of life, precipitation of slightly soluble salts and kinetics of crystallization in human urine, and the solution of CaOX concretions under the influence of biocompatible solubilizators...

Results on the correlations of low density classical and quantum Coulomb systems at equilibrium in three dimensions are reviewed. The exponential decay of particle correlations in the classical Coulomb system – Debye-Hückel screening – is compared and contrasted with the quantum case where strong arguments are presented for the absence of exponential screening. Results and techniques for detail...

We test the concepts of renormalized charge and potential saturation, introduced within the framework of highly asymmetric Coulomb mixtures, on exactly solvable Coulomb models. The object of study is the average electrostatic potential induced by a unique “guest” charge immersed in a classical electrolyte, the whole system being in thermal equilibrium at some inverse temperature β. The guest ch...