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"Blue energy" from ion adsorption and electrode charging in sea- and river water
N. Boon, R. van Roij
A huge amount of entropy is produced at places where fresh water and seawater mix, for example at river mouths. This mixing process is a potentially enormous source of sustainable…
DNA translocation through nanopores with salt gradients: The role of osmotic flow
Marius M. Hatlo, Debabrata Panja, René van Roij
Recent experiments of translocation of double stranded DNA through nanopores [M. Wanunu \textit{et al.} Nature Nanotech. {\bf 5}, 160 (2010)] reveal that the DNA capture rate can b…
Charge regulation and ionic screening of patchy surfaces
Niels Boon, René van Roij
The properties of surfaces with charge-regulated patches are studied using non-linear Poisson-Boltzmann theory. Using a mode expansion to solve the non-linear problem efficiently,…
Phase diagrams of colloidal spheres with a constant zeta-potential
Frank Smallenburg, Niels Boon, Maarten Kater +2
We study suspensions of colloidal spheres with a constant zeta-potential within Poisson-Boltzmann theory, quantifying the discharging of the spheres with increasing colloid density…
Heterogeneous Dynamics in Columnar Liquid Crystals of Parallel Hard Rods
Simone Belli, Alessandro Patti, René van Roij +1
In the wake of previous studies on the rattling-and-jumping diffusion in smectic liquid crystal phases of colloidal rods, we analyze here for the first time the heterogeneous dynam…
Phase Diagrams of Binary Mixtures of Oppositely Charged Colloids
Markus Bier, Rene van Roij, Marjolein Dijkstra
Phase diagrams of binary mixtures of oppositely charged colloids are calculated theoretically. The proposed mean-field-like formalism interpolates between the limits of a hard-sphe…