Planar, cylindrical and spherical electrical double layers in biological systems. The effect of counterion size

Cellular and Molecular Biology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 839-843

  Bohinc, Klemen ^a   Iglić, Aleš ^a   Slivnik, Tomaž ^a   Kralj Iglič, Veronika ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Electric Double Layer; Excluded Volume Effect; Polyelectrolytes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DENSITY; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROLYTE BALANCE; GEOMETRY; ION TRANSPORT; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PARTICLE SIZE; STATISTICS; SURFACE CHARGE; SURFACE PROPERTY; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY;

ELECTROLYTE;

ELECTROLYTES; ELECTROSTATICS; SOLUTIONS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 0036431639     PISSN: 14258153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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