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Biophysical Journal 13: 370-384 (1973)
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van der Waals Forces between Cylinders

II. Retarded Interaction between Thin Isotropic Rods

D. J. Mitchell, B. W. Ninham and P. Richmond

ABSTRACT

We derive the retarded van der Waals interaction between two long thin parallel dielectric cylinders immersed in a solvent. The result shows that the ultraviolet interactions which may be responsible for the specificity of macromolecular interactions do not operate strongly over distances R ≥ 50 Å. For greater distances the contribution of these frequencies {xi} is damped by a factor {infty} e-{xi}R/c.






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