Contribution of the electric double layer to the curvature elasticity of charged amphiphilic monolayers

✍ Scribed by H.N.W. Lekkerkerker

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 977 KB
• Volume: 159
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0378-4371
• DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(89)90400-7

✦ Synopsis

The electrostatic contribution to the bending moduli of an amphiphilic monolayer is calculated on the basis of the Poisson-Boltzmann equation. The electrical free energy for a spherical and cylindrical surface is expanded in inverse powers of the radius of curvature a. The coefficient (l/a) 2 in the electrical free energy gives the bending elastic moduli.