Mitchell DJ, Ninham BW, Richmond P. Van der Waals forces between cylinders. II. Retarded interaction between thin isotropic rods.
Biophys J 1973;
13:370-84. [PMID:
4696763 PMCID:
PMC1484299 DOI:
10.1016/s0006-3495(73)85991-0]
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Abstract
We derive the retarded van der Waals interaction between two long thin parallel dielectric cylinders immersed in a solvent. The result shows that the ultraviolet interactions which may be responsible for the specificity of macromolecular interactions do not operate strongly over distances R >/= 50 A. For greater distances the contribution of these frequencies xi is damped by a factor infinity e(-xiR/c).
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