Electrophoresis of a rod macroion under polyelectrolyte salt: Is mobility reversed for DNA?
arXiv:cond-mat/0311009 · doi:10.1088/0953-8984/16/22/011
Abstract
By molecular dynamics simulation, we study the charge inversion phenomenon of a rod macroion in the presence of polyelectrolyte counterions. We simulate electrophoresis of the macroion under an applied electric field. When both counterions and coions are polyelectrolytes, charge inversion occurs if the line charge density of the counterions is larger than that of the coions. For the macroion of surface charge density equal to that of the DNA, the reversed mobility is realized either with adsorption of the multivalent counterion polyelectrolyte or the combination of electrostatics and other mechanisms including the short-range attraction potential or the mechanical twining of polyelectrolyte around the rod axis.
8 pages, 5 figures, Applied Statistical Physics of Molecular Engineering (Mexico, 2003). Journal of Physics: Condensed Matters, in press (2004). Journal of Physics: Condensed Matters, in press (2004)
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