Evidence for Undulation-Enhanced Electrostatic Forces from the Melting Curves of a Lamellar Phase and a Hexagonal Polyelectrolyte Gel

Autor: T. Odijk
Rok vydání: 1993
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Zdroj: Europhysics Letters (EPL). 24:177-182
ISSN: 1286-4854
0295-5075
DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/24/3/004
Popis: A melting criterion for charged semi-flexible systems is formulated by combining the Lindemann rule with the theory of undulation-enhanced interactions. The predicted Lindemann ratios are constant along the melting curves for the lamellar phase of didodecyldimethylammonium bromide and the hexagonal phase of DNA. For connected systems there appears to be an unexplained spread in the Lindemann ratios.
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