Ionic Soft Matter: Modern Trends in Theory and Applications

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Field Theoretical Approach for Ionic Systems

   • D. di Caprio, J. Stafiej, J. P. Badiali

   Pages 1-17

3. Induced Charge Computation Method

   • D. Boda, D. Gillespie, B. Eisenberg, W. Nonner, D. Henderson

   Pages 19-43

4. Concept of Ion Association in the Theory of Electrolyte Solutions

   • M. Holovko

   Pages 45-81

5. Towards the Role of the Range of Intermolecular Interactions

   • I. Nezbeda, J. Kolafa

   Pages 83-108

6. Collective Dynamics in Ionic Fluids

   • I. Mryglod, T. Bryk, V. Kuporov

   Pages 109-141

7. Criticality of Ionic Liquids in Solution

   • W. Schröer

   Pages 143-180

8. Liquid-Vapor Criticality in Coulombic and Related Fluids

   • P. J. Camp, C. D. Daub, G. N. Patey

   Pages 181-197

9. Macroions in Solution

   • V. Vlachy, B. Hribar Lee, J. Reščič, Yu. V. Kalyuzhnyi

   Pages 199-231

10. Anomalous Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering in Rod-Like Polyelectrolytes

    • M. Ballauff

    Pages 233-247

11. Macroions Under Confinement

    • A. D. Trokhymchuk, D. Henderson, D. T. Wasan, A. Nikolov

    Pages 249-290

12. Grain Interaction and Ordering in a Dusty Plasmas

    • O. Bystrenko, T. Bystrenko, A. Zagorodny

    Pages 291-314

13. Dipolar Fluid Inclusions in Charged Matrices

    • M. J. Fernaud, E. Lomba

    Pages 315-332

14. Solute Ions at Ice/Water Interface

    • A. D. J. Haymet, T. Bryk, E. J. Smith

    Pages 333-359

15. Proton Transport in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell Membranes

    • E. Spohr

    Pages 361-379

16. DNA Saline Solutions Near Surfaces

    • B. M. Pettitt, A. Vainrub, K. -Y. Wong

    Pages 381-393

17. Charge Transport in Highly-Radioactive Substance

    • O. Zhydkov

    Pages 395-410

18. Back Matter

    Pages 411-418

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Recently there have been profound developments in the understanding and interpretation of liquids and soft matter centered on constituents with sho- range interactions. Ionic soft matter is a class of conventional condensed soft matter with prevailing contribution from electrostatics and, therefore, can be subject to possible long-range correlations among the components of the - terial and in many cases crucially affecting its physical properties. Among the most popular representatives of such a class of materials are natural and synthetic saline environments, like aqueous and non-aqueous electrolyte - lutions and molten salts as well as variety of polyelectrolytes and colloidal suspensions. Equally well known are biological systems of proteins. All these systems are examples of soft matter strongly in?uenced, if not dominated, by long-range forces. For more than half of century the classical theories by Debye and Hückel as well as by Derjaguin, Landau, Verwey and Owerbeek (DLVO) have been at the basis of theoretical physical chemistry and chemical engineering. The substantial progress in material science during last few decades as well as the advent of new instrumentation and computational techniques made it apparent that in many cases the classical theories break down. New types of interactions (e.g. hydrodynamic, entropic) have been discovered and a number of questions have arisen from theoretical and experimental studies. Many of these questions still do not have de?nite answers.

• Adsorption
• X-ray
• biophysics
• chemistry
• dynamics
• surfaces

• Brigham Young University, Provo, USA

  Douglas Henderson, Andrij Trokhymchuk

• Institute for Condensed Matter Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Lviv, Ukraine

  Myroslav Holovko, Andrij Trokhymchuk

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