Charge density and bending rigidity of a rodlike polyelectrolyte: Effects of multivalent counterions

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Kim, Won Kyu ^a   Sung, Wokyung ^a  

^a Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING ENERGIES; BENDING RIGIDITY; CHARGE DENSITY FLUCTUATIONS; CHARGE FLUCTUATION EFFECTS; EFFECTIVE HAMILTONIAN; ELECTROSTATIC ATTRACTIONS; MEAN-FIELD; MONOVALENT COUNTERIONS; MULTIVALENT COUNTERIONS; PERSISTENCE LENGTH; PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITION; WORM-LIKE CHAIN MODELS;

ELECTROSTATICS; POLYELECTROLYTES;

CHARGE DENSITY;

EID: 79961085850     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.83.051926     Document Type: Article

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