It is shown that screening the background of super-strong interacting gravitons creates for any pair of bodies as an attraction force as well an repulsion force due to pressure of gravitons. For single gravitons, these forces are approximately balanced, but each of them is much bigger than a force of Newtonian attraction. If single gravitons are pairing, a body attraction force due to pressure ...

We proposed a novel separation method, which is the first report using ion concentration polarization (ICP) to separate particles continuously. We analyzed the electrical forces that cause the repulsion of particles in the depletion region formed by ICP. Using the electrical repulsion, micro- and nano-sized particles were separated based on their electrophoretic mobilities. Because the separati...

Interactions between surfaces and particles in aqueous suspension are usually limited to distances smaller than 1 μm. However, in a range of studies from different disciplines, repulsion of particles has been observed over distances of up to hundreds of micrometers, in the absence of any additional external fields. Although a range of hypotheses have been suggested to account for such behavior,...

In this work, the impact of lipid lateral mobility on the steric interaction between membranes containing poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) functionalized lipids was investigated using the surface force apparatus. The force-distance profiles show the presence of electrostatic and steric repulsion that arise from the presence of negatively charged PEG functionalized lipids. Fluid-phase bilayers have h...

We construct and analyze a nonlocal continuum model for group formation with application to self-organizing collectives of animals in homogeneous environments. The model consists of a hyperbolic system of conservation laws, describing individual movement as a correlated random walk. The turning rates depend on three types of social forces: attraction toward other organisms, repulsion from them,...

granule-membrane surface as it undergoes exocytosis is dramatically decreased (Howell & Tyhurst, 1977). Incubation of isolated granules with 1-2m~-CaCI, did not produce a visible decrease in the number of anionic sites, although as shown by Dean (1974), even the small decrease in charge which could be expected after addition of 1 mM-CaZ+ would be sufficient to produce a 50-fold increase in the ...

This paper develops a new approach to surface modeling and reconstruction which overcomes some important limitations of existing surface representation methods, such as their tendency to impose restrictive assumptions about object topology. The approach features two components. The first is a dynamic, self-organizing, oriented particle system which discovers topological and geometric surface st...

Scattering forces in focused light beams push away metallic particles. Thus, trapping metallic particles with conventional optical tweezers, especially those of Mie particle size, is difficult. Here we investigate a mechanism by which metallic particles are attracted and trapped by plasmonic tweezers when surface plasmons are excited and focused by a radially polarized beam in a high-numerical-...

One of the fundamental problems in nucleic acids biophysics is to predict the different forces that stabilize nucleic acid tertiary folds. Here we provide a quantitative estimation and analysis for the forces between DNA helices in an ionic solution. Using the generalized Born model and the improved atomistic tightly binding ions model, we evaluate ion correlation and solvent polarization effec...

Hexagonal h-BN/metal interfaces for different 3d, 4d, and 5d metals are studied in terms of ab initio density functional theory. The trends across the periodic table of the bonding of h-BN to the metal surfaces are discussed. We show that the binding energy between h-BN and the metal surface decreases with the filling of the d shell and is largest for 4d elements. For all studied metals the N a...