Electrostatic Effects in Soft Matter and Biophysics

Structure and dynamic properties of membrane lipid and protein.- Cell model and Poisson-Boltzmann theory: A brief introduction.- DNA Condensation And Complexation.- Interactions in Colloidal Suspensions.- Computer Simulations of charged systems.- Scaling description of charged polymers.- When Ion-Ion Correlations Are Important in Charged Colloidal Systems.- Direct Surface Force Measurement Techniques.- Counterions in polyelectrolytes.- Distribution function theory of electrolytes and electrical double layers.- Field-Theoretic Approaches to Classical Charged Systems.- Interactions and conformational fluctuations in macromolecular arrays.- Structure and phasebehavior of cationic-lipid DNA complexes.- Small angle scattering methods applied to polyelectrolyte solutions.- Lateral correlation of multivalent counterions is the universal mechanism of charge inversion.- Highly Charged Polyelectrolytes: experimental aspects.