Attractive instability of oppositely charged membranes induced by charge density fluctuations

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 13, 2004, Pages

  Hed, Guy ^a   Safran, S A ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; DNA; ELECTRIC CHARGE; ENTROPY; FREE ENERGY; LIPIDS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE PROPERTIES; VISCOSITY;

CHARGE DENSITY; COULOMB INTERACTIONS; ELECTROSTATIC INTERACTIONS; MEMBRANE VISCOSITY;

CELL MEMBRANES;

EID: 19644362011     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.138101     Document Type: Article

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