Electric charge disorder: A key to biological order?
Monday, April 30, 2012 - 12:00
in Physics & Chemistry
Theoretical physicist Ali Naji from the IPM in Tehran and the University of Cambridge, UK, and his colleagues have shown how small random patches of disordered, frozen electric charges can make a difference when they are scattered on surfaces that are overall neutral.
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