A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä
Nonmonotonic electrophoretic mobility of rodlike polyelectrolytes by multivalent coions in added salt
Tekijät: Vahid, Hossein; Scacchi, Alberto; Sammalkorpi, Maria; Ala-Nissila, Tapio
Kustantaja: AMER PHYSICAL SOC
Kustannuspaikka: COLLEGE PK
Julkaisuvuosi: 2024
Journal: Physical review E
Tietokannassa oleva lehden nimi: PHYSICAL REVIEW E
Lehden akronyymi: PHYS REV E
Artikkelin numero: 014501
Vuosikerta: 109
Numero: 1
Sivujen määrä: 6
ISSN: 2470-0045
eISSN: 2470-0053
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.109.014501
Tiivistelmä
It is well established that when multivalent counterions or salts are added to a solution of highly charged polyelectrolytes (PEs), correlation effects can cause charge inversion of the PE, leading to electrophoretic mobility (EM) reversal. In this work, we use coarse-grained molecular-dynamics simulations to unravel the less understood effect of coion valency on EM reversal for rigid DNA-like PEs. We find that EM reversal induced by multivalent counterions is suppressed with increasing coion valency in the salt added and eventually vanishes. Further, we find that EM is enhanced at fixed low salt concentrations for salts with monovalent counterions when multivalent coions with increasing valency are introduced. However, increasing the salt concentration causes a crossover that leads to EM reversal which is enhanced by increasing coion valency at high salt concentration. Remarkably, this multivalent coion-induced EM reversal persists even for low values of PE linear charge densities where multivalent counterions alone cannot induce EM reversal. These results facilitate tuning PE-PE interactions and self-assembly with both coion and counterion valencies.
It is well established that when multivalent counterions or salts are added to a solution of highly charged polyelectrolytes (PEs), correlation effects can cause charge inversion of the PE, leading to electrophoretic mobility (EM) reversal. In this work, we use coarse-grained molecular-dynamics simulations to unravel the less understood effect of coion valency on EM reversal for rigid DNA-like PEs. We find that EM reversal induced by multivalent counterions is suppressed with increasing coion valency in the salt added and eventually vanishes. Further, we find that EM is enhanced at fixed low salt concentrations for salts with monovalent counterions when multivalent coions with increasing valency are introduced. However, increasing the salt concentration causes a crossover that leads to EM reversal which is enhanced by increasing coion valency at high salt concentration. Remarkably, this multivalent coion-induced EM reversal persists even for low values of PE linear charge densities where multivalent counterions alone cannot induce EM reversal. These results facilitate tuning PE-PE interactions and self-assembly with both coion and counterion valencies.
Turun yliopiston Tutkimustietojärjestelmän portaali