Adsorption of highly charged Gaussian polyelectrolytes onto oppositely charged surfaces

Sandipan Dutta1, Y S Jho2

  • 1Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics, Pohang, Gyeongbuk 790-784, South Korea.

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