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Title: Strong attractions and repulsions mediated by monovalent salts

Abstract

Significance The physical properties of proteins and polyions in electrolyte solutions are of crucial importance for understanding biological processes and for controlling biotechnological processes. The concentration of salt controls the range and strength of the interactions in these complex electrolytes. Here, multiscale coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations reveal long-range interactions between nanoparticles in aqueous solutions at high monovalent salt concentrations. The simulations explain the crystallization of nanoparticles even when they are strongly charged and explain the reentrant attractive to repulsive to attractive interactions as the nanoparticle charge density increases in high monovalent salt-concentration conditions.

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [2]
  1. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208,
  2. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208,, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208,, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208
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USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1402121
Grant/Contract Number:  
3J-30081-0056A/3J-30081-0056B
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Journal Volume: 114 Journal Issue: 45; Journal ID: ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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Li, Yaohua, Girard, Martin, Shen, Meng, Millan, Jaime Andres, and Olvera de la Cruz, Monica. Strong attractions and repulsions mediated by monovalent salts. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.1073/pnas.1713168114.
Li, Yaohua, Girard, Martin, Shen, Meng, Millan, Jaime Andres, & Olvera de la Cruz, Monica. Strong attractions and repulsions mediated by monovalent salts. United States. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1713168114
Li, Yaohua, Girard, Martin, Shen, Meng, Millan, Jaime Andres, and Olvera de la Cruz, Monica. Mon . "Strong attractions and repulsions mediated by monovalent salts". United States. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1713168114.
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title = {Strong attractions and repulsions mediated by monovalent salts},
author = {Li, Yaohua and Girard, Martin and Shen, Meng and Millan, Jaime Andres and Olvera de la Cruz, Monica},
abstractNote = {Significance The physical properties of proteins and polyions in electrolyte solutions are of crucial importance for understanding biological processes and for controlling biotechnological processes. The concentration of salt controls the range and strength of the interactions in these complex electrolytes. Here, multiscale coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations reveal long-range interactions between nanoparticles in aqueous solutions at high monovalent salt concentrations. The simulations explain the crystallization of nanoparticles even when they are strongly charged and explain the reentrant attractive to repulsive to attractive interactions as the nanoparticle charge density increases in high monovalent salt-concentration conditions.},
doi = {10.1073/pnas.1713168114},
journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America},
number = 45,
volume = 114,
place = {United States},
year = {2017},
month = {10}
}

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