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Buyukdagli S. Systematic Incorporation of Ionic Hard-Core Size into the Debye-Hückel Theory via the Cumulant Expansion of the Schwinger-Dyson Equations. J Chem Theory Comput 2024; 20:2729-2739. [PMID: 38518257 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.4c00011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/24/2024]
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The Debye-Hückel (DH) formalism of bulk electrolytes equivalent to the Gaussian-level closure of the electrostatic Schwinger-Dyson identities without the interionic hard-core (HC) coupling is extended via the cumulant treatment of these equations augmented by HC interactions. By comparing the monovalent ion activity and pressure predictions of our cumulant-corrected DH (CCDH) theory with hypernetted-chain results and Monte Carlo simulations from the literature, we show that this rectification extends the accuracy of the DH formalism from submolar to molar salt concentrations. In the case of internal energies or the general case of divalent electrolytes mainly governed by charge correlations, the improved accuracy of the CCDH theory is limited to submolar ion concentrations. Comparison with experimental data from the literature shows that, via the adjustment of the hydrated ion radii, CCDH formalism can equally reproduce the nonuniform effect of salt increment on the ionic activity coefficients up to molar concentrations. The inequality satisfied by these HC sizes coincides with the cationic branch of the Hofmeister series.
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Buyukdagli S. Schwinger-Dyson equations for composite electrolytes governed by mixed electrostatic couplings strengths. J Chem Phys 2020; 152:014902. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5138936] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Lue L. A diagrammatic analysis of the variational perturbation method for classical fluids. SOFT MATTER 2018; 14:4721-4734. [PMID: 29850716 DOI: 10.1039/c8sm00676h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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The statistical mechanics of classical fluids can be approached from the particle perspective, where the focus is on the various positions and interactions of the particles, and from the field perspective, where the focus is on the form of the interaction fields generated by the particles. In this work, we combine these two perspectives by examining the variational perturbation method for classical fluids, which has been widely used to describe nonuniform electrolyte systems. Most of this work has been for low orders of the approximation, it has been limited to cases where the electrostatic interactions are weak. We present an exact diagrammatic representation of the method, which greatly facilitates the enumeration and evaluation of higher order corrections to the free energy functional. This framework is able to encapsulate several different approximate theories. Performing a cumulant expansion, leads to the Debye-Hückel and higher order corrections. Including the contribution of chain diagrams leads to a theory closely related to the splitting theory [Hatlo and Lue, Europhys. Lett., 2010, 89, 25002], which has been shown to be accurate from the weak through to the strong coupling limits. Including all chain and ring diagrams leads to the hypernetted chain approximation; this is a more direct route to the conventional derivation, which also requires a renormalization of the Mayer f-bonds to the total correlation functions. These approximations to the variational perturbation method are applied to the classical one-component plasma in order to assess their relative accuracy and understand their relationship to each other. Strategies for developing improved approximations are discussed.
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- Leo Lue
- Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Strathclyde, James Weir Building, 75 Montrose Street, Glasgow, UK.
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Lee AA, Kostinski SV, Brenner MP. Controlling Polyelectrolyte Adsorption onto Carbon Nanotubes by Tuning Ion-Image Interactions. J Phys Chem B 2018; 122:1545-1550. [PMID: 29338265 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b11398] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Understanding and controlling polyelectrolyte adsorption onto carbon nanotubes is a fundamental challenge in nanotechnology. Polyelectrolytes have been shown to stabilize nanotube suspensions through adsorbing onto the nanotube surface, and polyelectrolyte-coated nanotubes are emerging as building blocks for complex and addressable self-assembly. Conventional wisdom suggests that polyelectrolyte adsorption onto nanotubes is driven by specific chemical or van der Waals interactions. We develop a simple mean-field model and show that ion-image attraction significantly effects adsorption onto conducting nanotubes at low salt concentrations. Our theory suggests a simple strategy to selectively and reversibly functionalize carbon nanotubes on the basis of their electronic structures, which in turn modify the ion-image attraction.
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- Alpha A Lee
- Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge , Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom
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- School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University , Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States
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- School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University , Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States
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Trefalt G, Palberg T, Borkovec M. Forces between colloidal particles in aqueous solutions containing monovalent and multivalent ions. Curr Opin Colloid Interface Sci 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cocis.2016.09.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Buyukdagli S, Blossey R. Beyond Poisson-Boltzmann: fluctuations and fluid structure in a self-consistent theory. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2016; 28:343001. [PMID: 27357125 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/28/34/343001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) theory is the classic approach to soft matter electrostatics and has been applied to numerous physical chemistry and biophysics problems. Its essential limitations are in its neglect of correlation effects and fluid structure. Recently, several theoretical insights have allowed the formulation of approaches that go beyond PB theory in a systematic way. In this topical review, we provide an update on the developments achieved in the self-consistent formulations of correlation-corrected Poisson-Boltzmann theory. We introduce a corresponding system of coupled non-linear equations for both continuum electrostatics with a uniform dielectric constant, and a structured solvent-a dipolar Coulomb fluid-including non-local effects. While the approach is only approximate and also limited to corrections in the so-called weak fluctuation regime, it allows us to include physically relevant effects, as we show for a range of applications of these equations.
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- S Buyukdagli
- Department of Physics, Bilkent University, Ankara 06800, Turkey
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Moazzami-Gudarzi M, Kremer T, Valmacco V, Maroni P, Borkovec M, Trefalt G. Interplay between Depletion and Double-Layer Forces Acting between Charged Particles in Solutions of Like-Charged Polyelectrolytes. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2016; 117:088001. [PMID: 27588884 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.117.088001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Direct force measurements between negatively charged silica particles in the presence of a like-charged strong polyelectrolyte were carried out with an atomic force microscope. The force profiles can be quantitatively interpreted as a superposition of depletion and double-layer forces. The depletion forces are modeled with a damped oscillatory profile, while the double-layer forces with the mean-field Poisson-Boltzmann theory for a strongly asymmetric electrolyte, whereby an effective valence must be assigned to the polyelectrolyte. This effective valence is substantially smaller than the bare valence due to ion condensation effects. The unusual aspect of the electrical double layer in these systems is the exclusion of the like-charged polyelectrolyte from the vicinity of the surface, leading to a strongly nonexponential diffuse ionic layer that is dominated by counterions and has a well-defined thickness. As the oscillatory depletion force sets in right after this layer, this condition can be used to predict the phase of the oscillatory depletion force.
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- Mohsen Moazzami-Gudarzi
- Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, University of Geneva, Sciences II, 30 Quai Ernest-Ansermet, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, University of Geneva, Sciences II, 30 Quai Ernest-Ansermet, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, University of Geneva, Sciences II, 30 Quai Ernest-Ansermet, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, University of Geneva, Sciences II, 30 Quai Ernest-Ansermet, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, University of Geneva, Sciences II, 30 Quai Ernest-Ansermet, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, University of Geneva, Sciences II, 30 Quai Ernest-Ansermet, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland
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Loubet B, Manghi M, Palmeri J. A variational approach to the liquid-vapor phase transition for hardcore ions in the bulk and in nanopores. J Chem Phys 2016; 145:044107. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4959034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Bastien Loubet
- Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, IRSAMC, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse, France
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- Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, IRSAMC, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse, France
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- Laboratoire Charles Coulomb (L2C), UMR 5221 CNRS-Université de Montpellier, F-34095 Montpellier, France
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Ghodrat M, Naji A, Komaie-Moghaddam H, Podgornik R. Ion-mediated interactions between net-neutral slabs: Weak and strong disorder effects. J Chem Phys 2015; 143:234701. [PMID: 26696064 DOI: 10.1063/1.4936940] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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We investigate the effective interaction between two randomly charged but otherwise net-neutral, planar dielectric slabs immersed in an asymmetric Coulomb fluid containing a mixture of mobile monovalent and multivalent ions. The presence of charge disorder on the apposed bounding surfaces of the slabs leads to substantial qualitative changes in the way they interact, as compared with the standard picture provided by the van der Waals and image-induced, ion-depletion interactions. While, the latter predict purely attractive interactions between strictly neutral slabs, we show that the combined effects from surface charge disorder, image depletion, Debye (or salt) screening, and also, in particular, their coupling with multivalent ions, give rise to a more diverse behavior for the effective interaction between net-neutral slabs at nano-scale separations. Disorder effects show large variation depending on the properly quantified strength of disorder, leading either to non-monotonic effective interaction with both repulsive and attractive branches when the surface charges are weakly disordered (small disorder variance) or to a dominating attractive interaction that is larger both in its range and magnitude than what is predicted from the van der Waals and image-induced, ion-depletion interactions, when the surfaces are strongly disordered (large disorder variance).
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- Malihe Ghodrat
- School of Physics, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran 19395-5531, Iran
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- School of Physics, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran 19395-5531, Iran
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- School of Physics, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran 19395-5531, Iran
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- Department of Theoretical Physics, J. Stefan Institute, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Lue L, Linse P. Ions confined in spherical dielectric cavities modeled by a splitting field-theory. J Chem Phys 2015; 142:144902. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4917256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Curtis RA, Lue L. Depletion forces due to image charges near dielectric discontinuities. Curr Opin Colloid Interface Sci 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cocis.2014.12.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Buyukdagli S, Ala-Nissila T. Electrostatic correlations on the ionic selectivity of cylindrical membrane nanopores. J Chem Phys 2014; 140:064701. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4864323] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Quan G, Zhu Y, Tong C. The numerical study of the adsorption of bi-disperse flexible polyelectrolytes onto the surface of two charged objects. POLYMER 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2013.10.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Jho Y, Brown FLH, Kim M, Pincus PA. Repulsion between oppositely charged planar macroions. PLoS One 2013; 8:e69436. [PMID: 23940518 PMCID: PMC3734153 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069436] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2013] [Accepted: 06/07/2013] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The repulsive interaction between oppositely charged macroions is investigated using Grand Canonical Monte Carlo simulations of an unrestricted primitive model, including the effect of inhomogeneous surface charge and its density, the depth of surface charge, the cation size, and the dielectric permittivity of solvent and macroions, and their contrast. The origin of the repulsion is a combination of osmotic pressure and ionic screening resulting from excess salt between the macroions. The excess charge over-reduces the electrostatic attraction between macroions and raises the entropic repulsion. The magnitude of the repulsion increases when the dielectric constant of the solvent is lowered (below that of water) and/or the surface charge density is increased, in good agreement with experiment. Smaller size of surface charge and the cation, their discreteness and mobility are other factors that enhance the repulsion and charge inversion phenomenons.
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- YongSeok Jho
- Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics, Pohang, Gyeongbuk-do, Korea.
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Buyukdagli S, Achim CV, Ala-Nissila T. Electrostatic correlations in inhomogeneous charged fluids beyond loop expansion. J Chem Phys 2012; 137:104902. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4750044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Hatlo MM, Banerjee P, Forsman J, Lue L. Density functional theory for Yukawa fluids. J Chem Phys 2012; 137:064115. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4742154] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Cherstvy AG, Winkler RG. Polyelectrolyte adsorption onto oppositely charged interfaces: image-charge repulsion and surface curvature. J Phys Chem B 2012; 116:9838-45. [PMID: 22794191 DOI: 10.1021/jp304980e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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We analyze theoretically the influence of low-dielectric boundaries on the adsorption of flexible polyelectrolytes onto planar and spherical oppositely charged surfaces in electrolyte solutions. We rationalize to what extent polymer chains are depleted from adsorbing interfaces by repulsive image forces. We employ the WKB (Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin) quantum mechanical method for the Green function of the Edwards equation to determine the adsorption equilibrium. Scaling relations are determined for the critical adsorption strength required to initiate polymer adsorption onto these low-dielectric supports. Image-force repulsion shifts the equilibrium toward the desorbed state, demanding larger surface charge densities and polyelectrolyte linear charge densities for the adsorption to take place. The effect is particularly pronounced for a planar interface in a low-salt regime, where a dramatic change in the scaling behavior for the adsorption-desorption transition is predicted. For the adsorbed state, polymers with higher charge densities are displaced further from the interface by image-charge repulsions. We discuss relevant experimental evidence and argue about possible biological applications of the results.
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- A G Cherstvy
- Institute for Physics and Astronomy, University of Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany.
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Lue L, Linse P. Macroion solutions in the cell model studied by field theory and Monte Carlo simulations. J Chem Phys 2012; 135:224508. [PMID: 22168704 DOI: 10.1063/1.3665450] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Aqueous solutions of charged spherical macroions with variable dielectric permittivity and their associated counterions are examined within the cell model using a field theory and Monte Carlo simulations. The field theory is based on separation of fields into short- and long-wavelength terms, which are subjected to different statistical-mechanical treatments. The simulations were performed by using a new, accurate, and fast algorithm for numerical evaluation of the electrostatic polarization interaction. The field theory provides counterion distributions outside a macroion in good agreement with the simulation results over the full range from weak to strong electrostatic coupling. A low-dielectric macroion leads to a displacement of the counterions away from the macroion.
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- Leo Lue
- Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Strathclyde James Weir Building, 75 Montrose Street, Glasgow G1 1XJ, United Kingdom.
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Buyukdagli S, Ala-Nissila T. Excluded volume effects in macromolecular forces and ion-interface interactions. J Chem Phys 2012; 136:074901. [DOI: 10.1063/1.3684880] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Hatlo MM, Panja D, van Roij R. Translocation of DNA molecules through nanopores with salt gradients: the role of osmotic flow. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2011; 107:068101. [PMID: 21902370 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.107.068101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2010] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Recent experiments of translocation of double-stranded DNA through nanopores [M. Wanunu et al., Nature Nanotech. 5, 160 (2009)] reveal that the DNA capture rate can be significantly influenced by a salt gradient across the pore. We show that osmotic flow combined with electrophoretic effects can quantitatively explain the experimental data on the salt-gradient dependence of the capture rate.
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- Marius M Hatlo
- Institute for Theoretical Physics, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
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Buyukdagli S, Manghi M, Palmeri J. Ionic exclusion phase transition in neutral and weakly charged cylindrical nanopores. J Chem Phys 2011; 134:074706. [DOI: 10.1063/1.3526940] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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A local self-consistent Ornstein-Zernike (OZ) integral equation theory (IET) is proposed to provide a rapid route for obtaining thermodynamic and structural information for any thermodynamically stable or metastable state points in the bulk phase diagram without recourse to traditional thermodynamic integration, and extensive NVT-Monte Carlo simulations are performed on a recently proposed honeycomb potential in three dimensions to test the theory's reliability. The simulated quantities include radial distribution function (rdf) and excess internal energy, pressure, excess chemical potential, and excess Helmholtz free energy. It is demonstrated that (i) the theory reproduces the rdf very satisfactorily only if the bulk state does not enter deep into a two phases coexistence region; (ii) the excess internal energy is the only one of the four thermodynamic quantities investigated amenable to the most accurate prediction by the present theory, and the simulated pressure is somewhat overestimated by the theoretical calculations, but the deviation tends to vanish along with rising of the temperature; (iii) using the structural functions from the present local self-consistent OZ IET, a previously derived local expression, due to the present author, achieves even a higher accuracy in calculating for the excess chemical potential than the exact virial pressure formula for the pressure, and the resulting excess Helmholtz free energy is in surprisingly same with the simulation results due to offset of the errors. Based on the above observations, it is suggested that it may be a good procedure to integrate the theoretical excess internal energy along the isochors to get the excess Helmholtz free energy, which is then fitted to a polynomial to be used for calculation of all of other thermodynamic quantities in the framework of the OZ IET.
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- Shiqi Zhou
- State Key Laboratory of Powder Metallurgy, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410083, China.
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Buyukdagli S, Manghi M, Palmeri J. Variational approach for electrolyte solutions: from dielectric interfaces to charged nanopores. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2010; 81:041601. [PMID: 20481729 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.81.041601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2009] [Revised: 02/11/2010] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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A variational theory is developed to study electrolyte solutions, composed of interacting pointlike ions in a solvent, in the presence of dielectric discontinuities and charges at the boundaries. Three important and nonlinear electrostatic effects induced by these interfaces are taken into account: surface charge induced electrostatic field, solvation energies due to the ionic cloud, and image-charge repulsion. Our variational equations thus go beyond the mean-field theory, or weak coupling limit, where thermal fluctuations overcome electrostatic correlations, and allows one to reach the opposite strong coupling limit, where electrostatic interactions induced by interfaces dominate. The influence of salt concentration, ion valency, dielectric jumps, and surface charge is studied in two geometries. (i) A single neutral dielectric interface (e.g., air-water or electrolyte-membrane) with an asymmetric electrolyte. A charge separation and thus an electrostatic field get established due to the different image-charge repulsions for coions and counterions. Both charge distributions and surface tension are computed and compared to previous approximate calculations. For symmetric electrolyte solutions close to a charged surface, two zones are characterized. In the first one, in contact with the surface and with size proportional to the logarithm of the coupling parameter, strong image forces and strong coupling impose a total ion exclusion, while in the second zone the mean-field approach applies. (ii) A symmetric electrolyte confined between two dielectric interfaces as a simple model of ion rejection from nanopores in membranes. The competition between image-charge repulsion and attraction of counterions by the membrane charge is studied. For small surface charge, the counterion partition coefficient decreases with increasing pore size up to a critical pore size, contrary to neutral membranes. For larger pore sizes, the whole system behaves like a neutral pore. For strong coupling and small pore size, coion exclusion is total and the counterion partition coefficient is solely determined by global electroneutrality. A quantitative comparison is made with a previous approach, where image and surface charge effects were smeared out in the pore. It is shown that the variational method allows one to go beyond the constant Donnan potential approximation, with deviations stronger at high ion concentrations or small pore sizes. The prediction of the variational method is also compared with MC simulations and good agreement is observed.
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- Sahin Buyukdagli
- UPS, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique (IRSAMC), Université de Toulouse, CNRS, LPT (IRSAMC), F-31062 Toulouse, France.
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Hatlo MM, Bohinc K, Lue L. The properties of dimers confined between two charged plates. J Chem Phys 2010; 132:114102. [DOI: 10.1063/1.3354121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Wang ZG. Fluctuation in electrolyte solutions: the self energy. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2010; 81:021501. [PMID: 20365565 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.81.021501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 147] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2009] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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We address the issue of the self energy of the mobile ions in electrolyte solutions within a general Gaussian renormalized fluctuation theory using a field-theoretic approach. We introduce the Born radii of the ions in the form of a charge distribution allowing for different Born radii between the cations and anions. The model thus automatically yields a theory free of divergences and accounts for the solvation of the ions at the level of continuous dielectric media. In an inhomogeneous dielectric medium, the self energy is in general position dependent and differences in the self energy between cations and anions can give rise to local charge separation in a macroscopically neutral system. Treating the Born radius a as a smallness parameter, we show that the self energy can be split into an O(a(-1)) nonuniversal contribution and an O(a0) universal contribution that depends only on the ion concentration, valency, and the spatially varying dielectric constant. For a weakly inhomogeneous dielectric medium, the nonuniversal part of the self energy is shown to have the form of the Born energy with the local dielectric constant. This self energy is incorporated into the Poisson-Boltzmann equation as a simple means of including this local fluctuation effect in a mean-field theory. We illustrate the phenomenon of charge separation by considering cations and anions of difference sizes and valencies in a periodic dielectric medium.
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- Zhen-Gang Wang
- Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA.
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Kanduc M, Trulsson M, Naji A, Burak Y, Forsman J, Podgornik R. Weak- and strong-coupling electrostatic interactions between asymmetrically charged planar surfaces. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2008; 78:061105. [PMID: 19256800 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.78.061105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2008] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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We compare weak- and strong-coupling theory of counterion-mediated electrostatic interactions between two asymmetrically charged plates with extensive Monte Carlo simulations. Analytical results in both weak- and strong-coupling limits compare excellently with simulations in their respective regimes of validity. The system shows a surprisingly rich structure in terms of interactions between the surfaces as well as fundamental qualitative differences in behavior in the weak- and the strong-coupling limits.
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- M Kanduc
- Department of Theoretical Physics, J. Stefan Institute, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Hatlo MM, Lue L. The role of image charges in the interactions between colloidal particles. SOFT MATTER 2008; 4:1582-1596. [PMID: 32907148 DOI: 10.1039/b803783c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
Abstract
The dielectric interiors of colloidal particles are responsible for dispersion (van der Waals) interactions. However, these dielectric regions also alter the manner in which charges, such as on ions or other colloidal particles, interact with each other, due to the induction of charges at the dielectric interfaces. The impact of these induced charges can be represented in terms of "image charges". These image charges result in an ion depletion layer in the vicinity of low dielectric bodies. This depletion layer is responsible for the increase in the surface tension of water upon the addition of electrolytes. In the case of colloidal particles, this depletion layer also leads to an "electrostatic depletion force" with a range of the order of a Bjerrum length. The relevance of this force to the salting out of proteins is discussed. This electrostatic depletion force is directly analogous to the entropically driven depletion force (due to excluded volume). Although image charge effects have been known, their influence on the behavior of colloidal systems, especially in the presence of mobile ions, has generally not been accounted for (e.g., DLVO theory). We review the previous theoretical and simulation studies of how image charges influence the properties of electrolyte and colloidal systems and discuss the relevance of these effects on experimental systems.
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Affiliation(s)
- Marius M Hatlo
- School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science, University of Manchester, PO Box 88, Sackville Street, Manchester, United KingdomM60 1QD.
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- School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science, University of Manchester, PO Box 88, Sackville Street, Manchester, United KingdomM60 1QD.
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