Electrolytes are central to life and technology but lack complete understanding. Recent
experiments with highly concentrated electrolytes have revealed electrostatic decay lengths …

We explore the reentrant condensation of polyelectrolytes triggered by multivalent salts,
whose phase-transition mechanism remains under debate. We propose a theory to study the …

Understanding overcharging and charge inversion is one of the long-standing challenges in
soft matter and biophysics. To study these phenomena, we employ the modified Gaussian …

The development of ecological fertilizers has become crucial in modern agriculture due to
the increasing global population and diminishing arable land resources. Herein, a plant …

Polyelectrolyte (PE) brushes are widely used in biomaterials and nanotechnology to
regulate the surface properties and interactions. Here, we apply the electrostatic correlation …

The electrostatic correlations between ions profoundly influence the structure and forces
within electrical double layers. Here, we apply the modified Gaussian renormalized …

Modeling ion correlations in inhomogeneous polymers and soft matters with spatially
varying ionic strength or dielectric permittivity remains a great challenge. Here, we develop a …

One outstanding challenge in the physical chemistry of electrolyte solutions is to
quantitatively describe the structure and properties of electrical double layers in systems …

We study the reentrant condensation of polyelectrolytes induced by diluted small multivalent
salts, whose phase-transition mechanism remains poorly understood. Motivated by recent …

We study the reentrant condensation of sparsely charged polyelectrolytes induced by diluted
small multivalent salts, whose phase-transition mechanism remains poorly understood …