Dynamical clustering of counterions on flexible polyelectrolytes

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Lo, Tak Shing ^a   Khusid, Boris ^b   Koplik, Joel ^a  

^a CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE DENSITY; CONDENSATION; ELECTRIC POWER MEASUREMENT; LIGANDS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

CHARGE FLUCTUATIONS; COUNTERIONS; DYNAMICAL CLUSTERING; SPATIOTEMPORAL DYNAMICS;

POLYELECTROLYTES;

EID: 41549128826     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.128301     Document Type: Article

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