Electrostatic forces are amongst the most versatile interactions to mediate the assembly of
nanostructured materials. Depending on experimental conditions, these forces can be long …

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 …

Fluid transport that is driven by gradients of pressure, gravity, or electro-magnetic potential is
well-known and studied in many fields. A subtler type of transport, called diffusiophoresis …

Ion transport in nanoconfinement differs from that in bulk and has been extensively
researched across scientific and engineering disciplines,,–. For many energy and water …

Understanding interactions of calcium with lipid membranes at the molecular level is of great
importance in light of their involvement in calcium signaling, association of proteins with …

Zeta potential of shape-and size-controlled TiO2 nanoparticles obtained with the
introduction of surfactants during synthesis was measured at different pH values. A unique …

When immersed into water, most solids develop a surface charge, which is neutralized by an
accumulation of dissolved counterions at the interface. Although the density distribution of …

This work is a review of the Poisson–Boltzmann (PB) continuum electrostatics theory and its
modifications, with a focus on salt effects and counterion binding. The PB model is one of the …

The ion atmosphere around nucleic acids critically affects biological and physical processes
such as chromosome packing, RNA folding, and molecular recognition. However, the …

We report charge inversion, the sign reversal of the effective surface charge in the presence
of multivalent counterions, for the biologically relevant regimes of divalent ions and mixtures …