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Polyelectrolyte solution under spatial and dielectric confinement
Debarshee Bagchi, Trung Dac Nguyen, Monica Olvera de la Cruz
Polyelectrolytes under confinement are crucial for energy storage and for understanding biomolecular functions. Using molecular dynamics simulations, we analyze a polyelectrolyte s…
Flexible paramagnetic membranes in fast precessing fields
Pablo Vázquez-Montejo, Mónica Olvera de la Cruz
Elastic membranes composed of paramagnetic beads offer the possibility of assembling versatile actuators operated autonomously by external magnetic fields. Here we develop a theore…
Paramagnetic filaments in a fast precessing field: Planar versus helical conformations
Pablo Vázquez-Montejo, Joshua M. Dempster, Mónica Olvera de la Cruz
We examine analytically equilibrium conformations of elastic chains of paramagnetic beads in the presence of a precessing magnetic field. Conformations of these filaments are deter…
Thermodynamics of Ion Solvation and Differential Adsorption at Liquid-Liquid Interfaces and Membranes
William Kung, Francisco J. Solis, Monica Olvera de la Cruz
We construct a mean-field formulation of the thermodynamics of ion solvation in immiscible polar binary mixtures. Assuming an equilibrium planar interface separating two semi-infin…
Complexation of oppositely charged polyelectrolytes: effect of ion pair formation
Alexander Kudlay, Alexander V. Ermoshkin, Monica Olvera de la Cruz
Complexation in symmetric solutions of oppositely charged polyelectrolytes is studied theoretically. We include polyion crosslinking due to formation of thermoreversible ionic pair…
A Modified Random Phase Approximation of Polyelectrolyte Solutions
A. V. Ermoshkin, M. Olvera de la Cruz
We compute the phase diagram of salt-free polyelectrolyte solutions using a modified Debye-Huckel Approach. We introduce the chain connectivity via the Random Phase Approximation w…