Fig. 4: Signature of rapid ejection of ions from coacervates upon transferring them to DI water.
From: The molecular picture of the local environment in a stable model coacervate
The ions located within a spherical region of radius rcore = 2.8 nm are labeled as core ions whereas the ions located in the spherical region between rcore = 2.8 nm and rsurface = 5 nm labeled as surface ions at t = 0 ns. Results are shown for one simulation set. Results for other sets are shown in the Supplementary Fig. 20). Ion ejection from the surface (A) and from the core (B). The top panels in A and B show the time evolution of the label change of the ions initially labeled as “surface” and the time evolution of the label change of the ions initially labeled as “core”, respectively, after coacervates transferred to DI water. The initial 100 ns of the simulation data is zoomed in on the bottom panels of A and B to show the initial rapid ejection both from the surface (A) and from the core (B). C Schematic diagram of the ejection of initially-core and initially-surface ions.
