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SOFT MATTER
Volume 8, Issue 36, Pages 9368-9375Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c2sm25608h
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- NSF [DMR-1006737, DMR-1101900]
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We examine how the mean-field ionic screening excess associated with a charged macromolecule depends upon the macromolecule's geometric conformation and net charge. Our approach involves expanding about Debye-Huckel theory, which allows us to derive a series of general results that establish explicit connections between the ionic excess, non-linear screening mechanisms, and the mobile ion entropy. We conclude with an analysis of the ionic screening entropy in familiar models for polyelectrolyte force-extension behavior, and we find the changes in this entropy are often quite substantial relative to the total free energy differences characterizing a polyelectrolyte's extended and compact states.
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