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Ge L, Shi X, Li B, Gong K. Fluctuation-induced dispersion forces on thin DNA films. Phys Rev E 2023; 107:064402. [PMID: 37464699 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.107.064402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2023] [Accepted: 05/15/2023] [Indexed: 07/20/2023]
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In this work, the calculation of Casimir forces across thin DNA films is carried out based on the Lifshitz theory. The variations of Casimir forces due to the DNA thicknesses, volume fractions of containing water, covering media, and substrates are investigated. For a DNA film suspended in air or water, the Casimir force is attractive, and its magnitude increases with decreasing thickness of DNA films and the water volume fraction. For DNA films deposited on a dielectric (silica) substrate, the Casimir force is attractive for the air environment. However, the Casimir force shows unusual features in a water environment. Under specific conditions, switching sign of the Casimir force from attractive to repulsive can be achieved by increasing the DNA-film thickness. Finally, the Casimir force for DNA films deposited on a metallic substrate is investigated. The Casimir force is dominated by the repulsive interactions at a small DNA-film thickness for both the air and water environments. In a water environment, the Casimir force turns out to be attractive for a large DNA-film thickness, and a stable Casimir equilibrium can be found. The influences of electrolyte screening on the Casimir pressure of DNA films are also discussed at the end. In addition to the adhesion stability, our finding could be applicable to the problems of condensation and decondensation of DNA, due to fluctuation-induced dispersion forces.
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- Lixin Ge
- School of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Xinyang Normal University, Xinyang 464000, China
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- Department of Physics, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, China
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- School of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Xinyang Normal University, Xinyang 464000, China
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- School of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Xinyang Normal University, Xinyang 464000, China
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Attractive and Repulsive Fluctuation-Induced Pressure in Peptide Films Deposited on Semiconductor Substrates. Symmetry (Basel) 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/sym14102196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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We consider the fluctuation-induced (Casimir) pressure in peptide films deposited on GaAs, Ge, and ZnS substrates which are either in a dielectric or metallic state. The calculations of the Casimir pressure are performed in the framework of the fundamental Lifshitz theory employing the frequency-dependent dielectric permittivities of all involved materials. The electric conductivity of semiconductor substrates is taken into account within the experimentally and thermodynamically consistent approach. According to our results, the Casimir pressure in peptide films deposited on dielectric-type semiconductor substrates vanishes for some definite film thickness and is repulsive for thinner and attractive for thicker films. The dependence of this effect on the fraction of water in the film and on the static dielectric permittivity of the semiconductor substrate is determined. For the metallic-type semiconductor substrates, the Casimir pressure in peptide coatings is shown to be always repulsive. The possible applications of these results to the problem of stability of thin coatings in microdevices are discussed.
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Baranov MA, Klimchitskaya GL, Mostepanenko VM, Velichko EN. Fluctuation-induced free energy of thin peptide films. Phys Rev E 2019; 99:022410. [PMID: 30934220 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.99.022410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2018] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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We apply the Lifshitz theory of dispersion forces to find a contribution to the free energy of peptide films that is caused by the zero-point and thermal fluctuations of the electromagnetic field. For this purpose, using available information about the imaginary parts of the dielectric permittivity of peptides, an analytic representation for permittivity of a typical peptide along the imaginary frequency axis is devised. Numerical computations of the fluctuation-induced free energy are performed at room temperature for freestanding peptide films containing different fractions of water, and for similar films deposited on dielectric (SiO_{2}) and metallic (Au) substrates. It is shown that the free energy of a freestanding peptide film is negative and thus contributes to its stability. The magnitude of the free energy increases with increasing fraction of water and decreases with increasing thickness of a film. For peptide films deposited on a dielectric substrate, the free energy is nonmonotonous. It is negative for films thicker than 100nm, reaches the maximum value at some film thickness, but vanishes and changes its sign for films thinner than 100nm. The fluctuation-induced free energy of peptide films deposited on metallic substrate is found to be positive, which makes films less stable. In all three cases, simple analytic expressions for the free energy of sufficiently thick films are found. The obtained results may be useful to attain film stability in the next generation of organic microdevices with further reduced dimensions.
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- M A Baranov
- Institute of Physics, Nanotechnology and Telecommunications, Peter the Great Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University, Saint Petersburg 195251, Russia
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- Institute of Physics, Nanotechnology and Telecommunications, Peter the Great Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University, Saint Petersburg 195251, Russia.,Central Astronomical Observatory at Pulkovo of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg 196140, Russia
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- Institute of Physics, Nanotechnology and Telecommunications, Peter the Great Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University, Saint Petersburg 195251, Russia.,Central Astronomical Observatory at Pulkovo of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg 196140, Russia.,Kazan Federal University, Kazan 420008, Russia
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- Institute of Physics, Nanotechnology and Telecommunications, Peter the Great Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University, Saint Petersburg 195251, Russia
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Lu BS, Gupta SP, Belička M, Podgornik R, Pabst G. Modulation of Elasticity and Interactions in Charged Lipid Multibilayers: Monovalent Salt Solutions. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2016; 32:13546-13555. [PMID: 27993014 PMCID: PMC5180256 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b03614] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2016] [Revised: 11/22/2016] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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We have studied the electrostatic screening effect of NaCl solutions on the interactions between anionic lipid bilayers in the fluid lamellar phase using a Poisson-Boltzmann-based mean-field approach with constant charge and constant potential limiting charge regulation boundary conditions. The full DLVO potential, including the electrostatic, hydration and van der Waals interactions, was coupled to thermal bending fluctuations of the membranes via a variational Gaussian Ansatz. This allowed us to analyze the coupling between the osmotic pressure and the fluctuation amplitudes and compare them both simultaneously with their measured dependence on the bilayer separation, determined by the small-angle X-ray scattering experiments. High-structural resolution analysis of the scattering data revealed no significant changes of membrane structure as a function of salt concentration. Parsimonious description of our results is consistent with the constant charge limit of the general charge regulation phenomenology, with fully dissociated lipid charge groups, together with a 6-fold reduction of the membranes' bending rigidity upon increasing NaCl concentration.
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- Bing-Sui Lu
- Department
of Theoretical Physics, Jožef Stefan
Institute, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
- School
of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang
Technological University, 21 Nanyang Link, 637371 Singapore
- E-mail:
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- Institute
of Molecular Biosciences, Biophysics Division,University of Graz, NAWI Graz, Humboldtstraße 50/III, A-8010 Graz, Austria
- BioTechMed-Graz, A-8010 Graz, Austria
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- Institute
of Molecular Biosciences, Biophysics Division,University of Graz, NAWI Graz, Humboldtstraße 50/III, A-8010 Graz, Austria
- BioTechMed-Graz, A-8010 Graz, Austria
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- Department
of Theoretical Physics, Jožef Stefan
Institute, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Department
of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, Jadranska ulica 19, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
- E-mail:
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- Institute
of Molecular Biosciences, Biophysics Division,University of Graz, NAWI Graz, Humboldtstraße 50/III, A-8010 Graz, Austria
- BioTechMed-Graz, A-8010 Graz, Austria
- E-mail: . Phone: +43 316 380 4989
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Podgornik R, Aksoyoglu MA, Yasar S, Svenšek D, Parsegian VA. DNA Equation of State: In Vitro vs In Viro. J Phys Chem B 2016; 120:6051-60. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.6b02017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Rudolf Podgornik
- Department
of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, United States
- Department
of Theoretical Physics, Jožef Stefan Institute, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Department
of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Department
of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, United States
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- Department
of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, United States
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- Department
of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Department
of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, United States
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