Figure 5
From: Ion-mediated interactions between like-charged polyelectrolytes with bending flexibility

(a,b) Potentials of mean force between two PEs with different intrinsic persistence lengths P: c3:3 = 0 (a), c3:3 = 5 mM (b). Solid lines denote the calculations in the absence of cylindrical confinement and dashed lines denote those for R = x.