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We analyze the simplest problem of electrochemical relaxation in more than one dimension - the response of an uncharged, ideally polarizable metallic sphere (or cylinder) in a symmetric, binary electrolyte to a uniform electric field. In…
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Ion transport, the movement of ions across a cellular membrane, plays a crucial role in a wide variety of biological processes and can be described by the Poisson-Nernst-Planck equations with steric effects (PNP-steric equations). In this…
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