Electrostatic interaction between long, rigid helical macromolecules at all interaxial angles
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Electrostatic interaction between long, rigid helical macromolecules at all interaxial angles.
We derive formulas for the electrostatic interaction between two long, rigid macromolecules that may have arbitrary surface charge patterns and cross at an arbitrary interaxial angle. We calculate the dependence of the interaction energy on the interaxial angle, on the separation, and on the precise alignment of the charge pattern on one molecule with respect to the other. We focus in particula...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review E
سال: 2000
ISSN: 1063-651X,1095-3787
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.62.2576