Non-monotonic swelling of a macroion due to correlation-induced charge inversion

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 388, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-8

  Skinner, Brian ^a   Shklovskii, B I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Charge inversion; DNA; Polymer electrolytes; Swelling

Indexed keywords

DNA; POLYELECTROLYTES; SWELLING;

CHARGE INVERSION; COUNTERIONS; INDUCED CHARGES; ION CONCENTRATIONS; MULTIVALENT COUNTERIONS; MULTIVALENT IONS; NEUTRAL POINTS; POLYMER ELECTROLYTE;

IONS;

EID: 55549120510     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2008.09.022     Document Type: Article

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