Counterion-induced attraction between rigid polyelectrolytes

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 78, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2477-2480

  Grønbech Jensen, Niels ^a,b   Mashl, Robert J ^a   Bruinsma, Robijn F ^a   Gelbart, William M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING ENERGY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FREE ENERGY; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; IONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLYELECTROLYTES; THERMAL EFFECTS;

BROWNIAN DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; ELECTROSTATIC INTERACTIONS; MEAN FIELD THEORY; WIGNER CRYSTALS;

ELECTROSTATICS;

EID: 0031095657     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.2477     Document Type: Article

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