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Quantifying the Critical Micelle Concentration of Nonionic and Ionic Surfactants by Self-Consistent Field Theory
Chao Duan, Mu Wang, Ahmad Ghobadi +2
Quantifying the critical micelle concentration (CMC) and understanding its relationship with both the intrinsic molecular structures and environmental conditions are crucial for th…
Microphase Segregation in Polyelectrolyte Brushes
Takashi Yokokura, Chao Duan, Rui Wang
Polyelectrolyte (PE) brushes have ubiquitous applications as surface modifiers which regulate various structural and dynamic properties. Here, we apply a continuous-space self-cons…
Ion Correlation-Driven Hysteretic Adhesion and Repulsion between Opposing Polyelectrolyte Brushes
Chao Duan, Rui Wang
Polyelectrolyte (PE) brushes are widely used in biomaterials and nanotechnology to regulate surface properties and interactions. Here, we apply the electrostatic correlation augmen…
A Variational Approach to Trap Macromolecules
Luofu Liu, Chao Duan, Rui Wang
Trapping macromolecules is impoartant for the study of their conformations, interactions, dynamics and kinetic processes. Here, we develop a variational approach which self-consist…
Electrostatic Correlation Augmented Self-Consistent Field Theory and Its Application to Polyelectrolyte Brushes
Chao Duan, Nikhil R. Agrawal, Rui Wang
Modeling ion correlations in inhomogeneous polymers and soft matters with spatially varying ionic strength or dielectric permittivity remains a great challenge. Here, we develop a…
Effects of Ionic Strength on the Morphology, Scattering, and Mechanical Response of Neurofilament-Derived Protein Brushes
Takashi J. Yokokura, Chao Duan, Erika A. Ding +2
Protein brushes not only play a key role in the functionality of neurofilaments but also have wide applications in biomedical materials. Here, we investigate the effect of ionic st…
Kinetic Pathway and Micromechanics of Vesicle Fusion/Fission
Luofu Liu, Chao Duan, Rui Wang
Despite the wide existence of vesicles in living cells as well as their important applications like drug-delivery, the underlying mechanism of vesicle fusion/fission remains under…
Understanding the Salt Effects on the Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation of Proteins
Chao Duan, Rui Wang
Protein aggregation via liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) is ubiquitous in nature and intimately connects to many human diseases. Although it is widely known that the addition…
On the nature of overcharging and charge inversion in electrical double layers
Nikhil R. Agrawal, Chao Duan, Rui Wang
Understanding overcharging and charge inversion is one of the long-standing challenges in soft matter and biophysics. To study these phenomena, we employ the modified Gaussian reno…