4 papers
Counterion Condensation and Fluctuation-Induced Attraction
A. W. C. Lau, P. Pincus
We consider an overall neutral system consisting of two similarly charged plates and their oppositely charged counterions and analyze the electrostatic interaction between the two…
Charge Fluctuations on Membrane Surfaces in Water
Rebecca Menes, Philip Pincus, Bean Stein
We generalize the predictions for attractions between over-all neutral surfaces induced by charge fluctuations/correlations to non-uniform systems that include dielectric discontin…
Rods Near Curved Surfaces and in Curved Boxes
K. Yaman, M. Jeng, P. Pincus +2
We consider an ideal gas of infinitely rigid rods near a perfectly repulsive wall, and show that the interfacial tension of a surface with rods on one side is lower when the surfac…
Polymers in Curved Boxes
K. Yaman, P. Pincus, F. Solis +1
We apply results derived in other contexts for the spectrum of the Laplace operator in curved geometries to the study of an ideal polymer chain confined to a spherical annulus in a…