Colloquium: The physics of charge inversion in chemical and biological systems

AY Grosberg, TT Nguyen, BI Shklovskii - Reviews of modern physics, 2002 - APS
The authors review recent advances in the physics of strongly interacting charged systems
functioning in water at room temperature. In these systems, many phenomena go beyond …

Statics and dynamics of strongly charged soft matter

H Boroudjerdi, YW Kim, A Naji, RR Netz… - Physics reports, 2005 - Elsevier
Soft matter materials, such as polymers, membranes, proteins, are often electrically charged.
This makes them water soluble, which is of great importance in technological application …

Electrostatistics of counter-ions at and between planar charged walls: From Poisson-Boltzmann to the strong-coupling theory

RR Netz - The European Physical Journal E, 2001 - Springer
The Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) approach gives asymptotically exact counter-ion density
profiles around macroscopic charged objects and forces between macroscopic charged …

Perspective: Coulomb fluids—Weak coupling, strong coupling, in between and beyond

A Naji, M Kanduč, J Forsman… - The Journal of chemical …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
We present a personal view on the current state of statistical mechanics of Coulomb fluids
with special emphasis on the interactions between macromolecular surfaces, concentrating …

Electrostatics of strongly charged biological polymers: ion-mediated interactions and self-organization in nucleic acids and proteins

GCL Wong, L Pollack - Annual review of physical chemistry, 2010 - annualreviews.org
Charges on biological polymers in physiologically relevant solution conditions are strongly
screened by water and salt solutions containing counter-ions. However, the entropy of these …

Aqueous solutions next to phospholipid membrane surfaces: insights from simulations

ML Berkowitz, DL Bostick, S Pandit - Chemical reviews, 2006 - ACS Publications
It is well established that water plays a very important role in the functioning of biological
molecules and their assemblies. Among such molecular assemblies are biological …

Binding of similarly charged plates with counterions only

AG Moreira, RR Netz - Physical review letters, 2001 - APS
Similarly and highly charged plates in the presence of multivalent counterions attract each
other and form electrostatically bound states. Using Monte-Carlo simulations, we obtain the …

Electrostatics in soft matter

R Messina - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent progress in understanding the effect of electrostatics in soft matter is presented. A
vast number of materials contain ions, ranging from the molecular scale (eg electrolyte) to …

Simulations of counterions at charged plates

AG Moreira, RR Netz - The European Physical Journal E, 2002 - Springer
Using Monte Carlo simulations, we study the counterion distribution close to planar charged
walls in two geometries: i) when only one charged wall is present and the counterions are …

Multivalent ions and biomolecules: Attempting a comprehensive perspective

O Matsarskaia, F Roosen‐Runge… - ChemPhysChem, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Ions are ubiquitous in nature. They play a key role for many biological processes on the
molecular scale, from molecular interactions, to mechanical properties, to folding, to self …