A self-consistent analytic approach is introduced for the estimation of the access resistance and the current through an open ion channel for an arbitrary number of species. For an ion current flowing radially inward from infinity to the channel mouth, the Poisson-Boltzmann-Nernst-Planck equations are solved analytically in the bulk with spherical symmetry in three dimensions, by linearization....

In its most widespread, classical formulation, the Nernst–Planck– Poisson system for ion transport in electrolytes fails to take into account finite ion sizes. As a consequence, it predicts unphysically high ion concentrations near electrode surfaces. Historical and recent approaches to an approriate modification of the model are able to fix this problem. Several appropriate formulations are co...

We test the validity of the mean-field approximation in Poisson-Nernst-Planck theory by contrasting its predictions with those of Brownian dynamics simulations in schematic cylindrical channels and in a realistic potassium channel. Equivalence of the two theories in bulk situations is demonstrated in a control study. In simple cylindrical channels, considerable differences are found between the...

Using the full-potential linearized augmented plane-wave method within the density functional theory, we compute all contributions to the scattering-independent part of the thermoelectric conductivity tensor α̂, namely, the intrinsic contribution α̂ic and the side-jump contribution α̂sj. For the ferromagnetic materials bcc Fe, hcp Co, fcc Ni, and L10 ordered alloys FePd and FePt, our investigation...