Physics – Biological Physics
Scientific paper
2012-01-03
Physics
Biological Physics
5 Pages, 3 figures. Submitted to the Phys. Rev. Lett. 2009, PNAS-USA 2010, J. of Appl. Phys. 2011
Scientific paper
As is well known in electrolyte theory, electrostatic fields are attenuated by the presence of mobile charges in the solution. This seems to limit the possibility of an electrostatic repulsion model of biological interactions such as cell division. Here, a system of two charges in an ionic solution is considered. It is found that in the context of the symmetries of the system, the electrostatic repulsion between the two is considerably increased as compared to the electrostatic repulsion between two bare charges in a dielectric. This increase in repulsion, directly resulting from interactions between the symmetrical parts of the system, was found to be dependent on the magnitude of the charges and the separation between them. It was also found that this increases reaches a steady state for separation greater than a solvent determined length scale related to the Debye length. These findings strongly suggest that electrostatic interactions can play a crucial part in the physical forces that are involved in biological interactions.
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