Theoretical Bio&Soft Matter

Water mediated electrostatic interactions are omnipresent in various nanoscale phenomena. These interactions regulate several biological and industrial processes, such as the functioning of energy storage devices, the ionic selectivity and polymer conductivity of membrane nanopores in nanofluidic and biosequencing approaches, and the interaction of protein-DNA complexes in gene therapeutic applications.  Despite their high relevance, for several decades, electrostatic interactions governing nanoscale systems have been modeled within mean-field (MF) level dielectric continuum formulations, such as the Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) approach that neglects charge correlations, the charge structure of water solvent, and ion specific effects originating from the intramolecular solute structure.

With the aim to overcome these limitations, I incorporate into the PB formalism electrostatic correlations, solvent charge structure resulting in non-local electrostatics, and ion specificity. Within the framework of these solvent explicit and beyond-MF electrostatic theories, I investigate the equilibrium thermodynamics of charged liquids and macromolecular interactions. By combining these approaches with hydrodynamic transport and diffusion equations, I characterize as well the electrohydrodynamics of ion transport and polymer translocation through nanoslits and confined nanopores.


   Selected Publications : 




This article reporting the evaluation of the magnetic field signals induced by polymer translocation events has been published in a national journal as a compulsory requirement for the academic habilitation process of the Council of Higher  Education.









































For a complete publication list, see my  CV or my ORCID account.

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