Electrostatic correlations play an important role in physics, chemistry and biology. In
plasmas they result in thermodynamic instability similar to the liquid–gas phase transition of …

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 …

We discuss qualitative and quantitative aspects of the effective interactions between
micrometer-sized colloids of different types trapped at fluid interfaces, with a particular …

Charged soft-matter systems—such as colloidal dispersions and charged polymers—are
dominated by attractive forces between constituent like-charged particles when neutralizing …

Ionic size effects are significant in many biological systems. Mean-field descriptions of such
effects can be efficient but also challenging. When ionic sizes are different, explicit formulas …

We demonstrate that the attractive interaction measured between like-charged colloidal
spheres near a wall can be accounted for by a nonequilibrium hydrodynamic effect. We …

We propose a field-theoretical approach based on the thermodynamic perturbation theory
and within it derive a grand thermodynamic potential of the inhomogeneous ionic fluid as a …

A recently developed mesoscopic solvent model with multiparticle-collision dynamics is
applied to three-dimensional solvent flows in a channel with and without a spherical …

We study the mean-field Poisson–Boltzmann equation in the context of dense ionic liquids
where steric effects become important. We generalise lattice gas theory by introducing a …

Although equally charged colloidal particles dispersed in clean water are expected to repel
each other, an unexplained long-range attraction has consistently been reported for charged …