title: Electro-osmotic equilibria for a semipermeable shell filled with a solution of polyions.
abstract: The authors study theoretically the electrostatic equilibria for a shell filled with a suspension of polyions (e.g., colloids, polyelectrolytes, etc.) and immersed in an infinite salt-free reservoir. The shell is treated as impermeable for polyions, but allowing free diffusion of counterions. From the solution of the linearized Poisson-Boltzmann equation we obtain the distribution of the potential and concentration profiles for polyions. The authors then derive explicit formulas for the excess electro-osmotic pressure of a polyion solution exerted by the shell. This is shown to be due to a concentration of polyions at the inner shell boundary and can be very different from the pressure of a corresponding bulk polyion solution.
authors.affiliation: A.N. Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 31 Leninsky Prospect, 119991 Moscow, Russia.
authors.forename: Roumen
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Tsekov
authors.forename: Olga I
authors.initials: OI
authors.lastname: Vinogradova