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Interfacial solvation can explain attraction between like-charged objects in aqueous solution
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Over the past few decades, the experimental literature has consistently reported observations of attraction between like-charged colloidal particles and macromolecules in aqueous solution. Examples include nucleic acids and colloidal particles in the bulk solution and under confinement, and biological liquid-liquid phase separation. This observation is at odds with the intuitive expectation of an interparticle repulsion that decays monotonically with distance. Although attraction between like-charged particles can be rationalized theoretically in the strong-coupling regime, e.g., in the presence of multivalent counterions, recurring accounts of long-range attraction in aqueous solution containing monovalent ions at low ionic strength have posed an open conundrum. Here, we show that the behavior of molecular water at an interface-traditionally disregarded in the continuum electrostatics picture-provides a mechanism to explain the attraction between like-charged objects in a broad spectrum of experiments. This basic principle will have important ramifications in the ongoing quest to better understand intermolecular interactions in solution.
Keywords:
WATER-MOLECULES
VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY
ORIENTATION
CONFINEMENT
DYNAMICS
COLLOIDS
DNA
SURFACES
FORCES
ENERGY
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