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 …

Large quantities of wastewaters containing high concentrations of Cl (-I) can be generated in
several industries when chloride-containing materials and additive agents are employed …

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 …

Soft condensed matter physics, which emerged as a distinct branch of physics in the 1990s,
studies complex fluids: liquids in which structures with length scale between the molecular …

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

The standard model for diffuse charge phenomena in colloid science, electrokinetics, and
biology is the Poisson–Boltzmann mean-field theory, which breaks down for multivalent ions …

It is hard to overestimate the importance of electrostatic interactions associated with charged
objects in soft and biological matter. In aqueous environment, typical to many of these …

By decomposing the Coulomb interaction into a long-distance component appropriate for
mean-field theory, and a non-mean-field short distance component, we compute the …

The large electrostatic repulsion arising from the negatively charged backbone of RNA
molecules presents a large barrier to folding. Solution counterions assist in the folding …

We reformulate the theory of strong electrostatic coupling in order to describe an asymmetric
electrolyte solution of monovalent salt ions and polyvalent counterions using field-theoretical …