Affiliation:
1. Departamento de Física, Universidad de los Andes, AA 4976, Bogotá, Colombia
Abstract
We present several aspects of the screening of charged macromolecules in an electrolyte. After a review of the basic mean field approach, based on the linear Debye–Hückel theory, we consider the case of highly charged macromolecules, where the linear approximation breaks down and the system is described by the full nonlinear Poisson–Boltzmann equation. Some analytical results for this nonlinear equation give some interesting insight on physical phenomena like the charge renormalization and the Manning counterion condensation.
Subject
General Physics and Astronomy,General Engineering,General Mathematics
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