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Further simphfication of the SPM and RPM is to assume the ions are point charges with no hard-core correlations, i.e., du = 0. This is called the Debye-Huckel (DH) level of treatment, and an early Nobel prize was awarded to the theory of electrolytes in the infinite-dilution limit [31]. This model can capture the long-range electrostatic interactions and is expected to be valid only for dilute solutions. An analytical solution is available by solving the Pois-son-Boltzmann (PB) equation for the distribution of ions (charges). The PB equation is... 

E-A. Numerical or analytic solution of the classical electrostatic problem (e.g., Poisson equation) with homogeneous dielectric constant for solvent. 

In an exact calculation of the distribution of the electrostatic potential, the carrier densities and their currents, (4.81)-(4.87) are solved simultaneously, bearing in mind that only the sum of the diffusion and drift currents has physical significance. Due to the complexity of the above relations and in particular due to the coupling of electron and hole concentrations by Poisson s equation, analytical solutions exist only for a few, very specific conditions. Generally, the determination of local carrier concentrations, current densities, recombination rates, etc., requires extensive numerical procedures. This is especially true if they vary with time, but even in the steady state context. 

This restriction, actually, corresponds with the weak coupling approximation employed throughout the previous section. It simplifies all equations significantly, and allows to obtain an analytical solution to the problem. Also, the standard, DLYO theory is well developed in this limiting situation, what alleviates comparison of our calculations with the standard, DLYO results used widely for the description of the electrostatic interaction in colloidal systems. 

The electrostatic potential only can be determined relative to a reference point which normally is chosen to be zero at r — oo. However, this equation is still very difficult to solve and an analytical solutions are only available in special cases. Useful solutions occur at low surface potential, where the PB can be linearized (see Debye-Hiickel below). A famous analytical solution was derived by Gouy [12] and Chapman [13] independently (see below) for one flat surface in contact with an infinite salt reservoir. The interaction between two flat and charged surfaces in absence of salt, can also be solved analytically [14]. In other situations the nonlinearized PB equation has to be solved numerically. 

Since one goal of classical electrostatic applications to protein reactivity is to incorporate available detailed structural information, the system is usually quite complicated and analytical solutions to the various electrostatic equations are rarely available. Numerical methods for solving these equations rapidly and accurately are therefore a non-trivial requirement. Various methods of calculation are briefly discussed. A key component of such calculations is to have reliable input parameters and data. These typically include the position, size, and charge distribution of all the atoms or groups being explicitly treated, and parameters describing the electrostatic... 

Abstract Analytical solution of the associative mean spherical approximation (AMSA) and the modified version of the mean spherical approximation - the mass action law (MSA-MAL) approach for ion and ion-dipole models are used to revise the concept of ion association in the theory of electrolyte solutions. In the considered approach in contrast to the traditional one both free and associated ion electrostatic contributions are taken into account and therefore the revised version of ion association concept is correct for weak and strong regimes of ion association. It is shown that AMSA theory is more preferable for the description of thermodynamic properties while the modified version of the MSA-MAL theory is more useful for the description of electrical properties. The capabilities of the developed approaches are illustrated by the description of thermodynamic and transport properties of electrolyte solutions in weakly polar solvents. The proposed theory is applied to explain the anomalous properties of electrical double layer in a low temperature region and for the treatment of the effect of electrolyte on the rate of intramolecular electron transfer. The revised concept of ion association is also used to describe the concentration dependence of dielectric constant in electrolyte solutions. 

We recently considered the effect of the nucleic acid-surface electrostatic interaction on the thermodynamics of the surface hybridization [2-5, 22], This theory used an analytical solution of the linearized Poisson-Boltzmann boundary value problem for a charged sphere-surface interaction in electrolyte solution and corresponds to the system characterized by a low surface density of immobilized probes. To understand the motivation for that work and extensions, we need to consider the physical effects of a surface in solution and the theoretical tools available for their study. 

In the presented theories of electrostatic retardation, very simple models are used to enable an analytical solution of the different problems and to clarify the physics of the mechanisms. The objective of further work is of course the generalisation of models with respect to the adsorption isotherm, content of background electrolyte, and ion transport properties. 

The effect of an applied alternating E-field may be analyzed as an ordinary capacitor coupled system (Chapter 3). The tissue of interest may be modeled as a part of the dielectric, perhaps with air and other conductors or insulators. The analysis of simple geometries can be done according to analytical solutions of ordinary electrostatic equations as given in Chapter 6. Real systems are often so complicated that analysis preferably is done with the Finite Element Method (FEM) (Chapter 9). 

The analytical solution of electrostatic potential is presented below. Region I is free of charges, where (w, v, u) = (0, 0, 0), and, therefore (25.45) reduces to... 

Quantitative analysis requires that peak current (the diffusion current) be governed by the rate at which analyte diffuses to the electrode. Analyte can also reach the electrode by convection and electrostatic attraction. We minimize convection by using an unstirred solution. Electrostatic attraction is decreased by a high concentration of inert ions (called supporting electrolyte), such as 1 M HCl in Figure 17-13. 

The concept behind the DH theory was not new, in that Milner (3a), almost a decade before, formulated a theory of ionic solutions based on the concept of "ionic atmosphere". He, however, was unable to solve the proposed equations. Double layer theories(3b,3c), which used the same concept, also preceded the DH theory. The merit of Debye and Hiickel was to introduce several approximations that made an analytical solution for the theory possible. The starting point of the DH theory is the assumption that the excess of thermodynamic properties of electrolyte solutions (when compared with non-electrolyte solutions) is due only to the Coulombic interactions between the ions. It is then necessary to calculate the average electrostatic potential at the surface of a given ion (taken as reference) due to all the other ions. These other ions constitute the "ionic atmosphere". Once this potential is known, it is evidently possible to calculate all the thermodynamic properties of the system. Indicating with z e and zje the charge of the reference ion (i) and of an arbitrary ion (j) in the "ionic atmosphere", respectively, the effective interaction energy between the two ions will be... 

It is possible to take into account the short range ion-ion interaction effect on the volumetric properties of electrolytes by resorting to integral equation theories, as the mean spherical approximation (MSA). The MSA model renders an analytical solution (Blum, 1975) for the umestricted primitive model of electrolytes (ions of different sizes immersed in a continuous solvent). Thus, the excess volume can be described in terms of an electrostatic contribution given by the MSA expression (Corti, 1997) and a hard sphere contribution obtained form the excess pressure of a hard sphere mixture (Mansoori et al, 1971). The only parameters of the model are the ionic diameters and numerical densities. 

In the weak adsorption limit, we provide an exact analytical solution for polyelectrolyte-sphere adsorption by replacing the Debye-Huckel potential by the Hulthen potential. Other geometries require different approaches. As a generic concept, we propose application of the WKB method of quanmm mechanics, which we adopted to electrostatic polyelectrolyte adsorption problems. We have demonstrate that this description provides valuable analytical solutions and resolves a long-standing puzzle about the scaling properties of critical polyelectrolyte adsorption in curved geometries. 

There are three current approaches to continuum solvation models [25-27], according to three different approaches to the solution of the basic electrostatic problem (Poisson problem) The Generalized Born approximation, the methods based on multipolar expansions of the electrostatic potential for the analytical solution of the electrostatic problem, and the methods based on a direct numerical integration of the electrostatic problem. ... 

Recent developments have attempted to include more reahstic electrostatic potentials, polymer form factors, hydrodynamic interactions [193] and activity coeflFicients [194, 195] and also focused on weakly charged polyelectrolytes [52, 196]. However, each of these improvements made the mathematics hardly tractable and, except for a few limiting cases, no analytical solution to the problem is provided. 

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