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Chin. Phys. B, 2011, Vol. 20(7): 076401    DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/20/7/076401
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Electrostatic interaction between a rod-like macromolecule and a circular orifice/disk in an electrolyte solution

Lian Zeng-Ju(连增菊)
Department of Physics, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China
Abstract  We present the solutions of the interaction energy for a colloid system with a charged rod-like macromolecule immersed in a bulk electrolyte and moving along the axis of a circular orifice or disk (orifice/disk). The calculation requires a numerical computation of the surface charge profiles, which result from a constant surface potential on the macromolecule and the orifice/disk. In the calculation, remarkable divergences of the surface charge emerge on the edges of the macromolecule and the orifice/disk, which are well-known edge effects. The anisotropic distribution of the surface charge (effective dipole) results in an attraction between these two charged objects. This attraction is enhanced with the increase of the screening length of the system for both the orifice and the disk systems. However, the sizes of the orifice and the disk reduce to different effects on the interaction energy.
Keywords:  electrostatic interaction      Green's function      anistropic distribution  
Received:  07 December 2010      Revised:  29 January 2011      Accepted manuscript online: 
PACS:  64.70.pv (Colloids)  
  47.57.J- (Colloidal systems)  
  41.20.Cv (Electrostatics; Poisson and Laplace equations, boundary-value problems)  

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Lian Zeng-Ju(连增菊) Electrostatic interaction between a rod-like macromolecule and a circular orifice/disk in an electrolyte solution 2011 Chin. Phys. B 20 076401

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