Criticality and Self-assembly in Biological Ionic Fluids Ghee

Electrostatics in aqueous media pervade biological systems. Interactions within a collection of highly-charged macro-ions in an aqueous environment are very complex and often exhibit counter-intuitive critical effects, whose manifestations govern the self-organization and activity of living systems. This paper attempts to give a broad overview of work done on the behaviour of long rod-like highly-charged biological macromolecules as well as possible far-reaching applications.