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Gerald S. Manning is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Their research spans the fields of Engineering and Physics and Astronomy, with a particular focus on statistical and nonlinear physics and biomedical engineering applications.

Their work often explores topics relating to advanced thermodynamics and statistical mechanics alongside nanopore and nanochannel transport studies. Other areas covered in their research include minerals flotation and separation techniques, nanoparticles nucleation and surface interactions, calcium carbonate crystallization and inhibition, lipid membrane structure and behavior, and membrane separation technologies.

Gerald S. Manning has published extensively in several scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Gels, and The European Physical Journal E.

  • On the thermodynamic stability of bubbles, immiscible droplets, and cavities (2020, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics)
  • The Physical Basis of Osmosis (2023, bioRxiv, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Construction of a Universal Gel Model with Volume Phase Transition (2020, Gels)
  • A hard sphere model for single-file water transport across biological membranes (2024, The European Physical Journal E)
  • The Poisson equation and polarization charge density in the concentration gradient of a diffusing electrolyte (2025, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics)

Their frequent coauthors include Alan R. Kay, Masayuki Tokita, and Masahiko Annaka.

Best Publications

  • Limiting Laws and Counterion Condensation in Polyelectrolyte Solutions I. Colligative Properties

    Gerald S. Manning

  • The molecular theory of polyelectrolyte solutions with applications to the electrostatic properties of polynucleotides.

    Gerald S. Manning

  • Limiting laws and counterion condensation in polyelectrolyte solutions: IV. The approach to the limit and the extraordinary stability of the charge fraction

    Gerald S. Manning

  • Limiting Laws and Counterion Condensation in Polyelectrolyte Solutions II. Self‐Diffusion of the Small Ions

    Gerald S. Manning

  • Counterion binding in polyelectrolyte theory

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  • The persistence length of DNA is reached from the persistence length of its null isomer through an internal electrostatic stretching force

    Gerald S. Manning

  • Limiting laws and counterion condensation in polyelectrolyte solutions. 7. Electrophoretic mobility and conductance

    Gerald S. Manning

  • Limiting Laws and Counterion Condensation in Polyelectrolyte Solutions. III. An Analysis Based on the Mayer Ionic Solution Theory

    Gerald S. Manning

  • Counterion condensation on charged spheres, cylinders, and planes.

    Gerald S Manning

  • An attractive force between two rodlike polyions mediated by the sharing of condensed counterions

    Jolly Ray;Gerald S. Manning

  • Counterion condensation revisited.

    Gerald S. Manning;Jolly Ray

  • On the application of polyelectrolyte “limiting laws” to the helix-coil transition of DNA. I. Excess univalent cations

    Gerald S. Manning

  • Limiting laws and counterion condensation in polyelectrolyte solutions. 8. Mixtures of counterions, species selectivity, and valence selectivity

    Gerald S. Manning

  • Limiting law for the conductance of the rod model of a salt-free polyelectrolyte solution

    Gerald S. Manning

  • The critical onset of counterion condensation: A survey of its experimental and theoretical basis

    Gerald S. Manning

  • Ion Diffusion Coefficients in Ion Exchange Membranes: Significance of Counterion Condensation

    Jovan Kamcev;Donald R. Paul;Gerald S. Manning;Benny D. Freeman

  • Limiting laws and counterion condensation in polyelectrolyte solutions. V. Further development of the chemical model.

    Gerald S. Manning

  • Partitioning of mobile ions between ion exchange polymers and aqueous salt solutions: Importance of counter-ion condensation

    Jovan Kamcev;Michele Galizia;Francesco M. Benedetti;Eui Soung Jang

  • Predicting Salt Permeability Coefficients in Highly Swollen, Highly Charged Ion Exchange Membranes

    Jovan Kamcev;Donald R. Paul;Gerald S. Manning;Benny D. Freeman

  • Polyelectrolyte effects on site-binding equilibria with application to the intercalation of drugs into DNA.

    Richard A. G. Friedman;Gerald S. Manning

  • Limiting laws and counterion condensation in polyelectrolyte solutions. 6. Theory of the titration curve

    Gerald S. Manning

Frequent Co-Authors

Wilma K. Olson
Wilma K. Olson Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Donald R Paul
Donald R Paul The University of Texas at Austin
Benny D. Freeman
Benny D. Freeman The University of Texas at Austin
Paolo Milani
Paolo Milani University of Milan
Andrei D. Mirzabekov
Andrei D. Mirzabekov Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology
Kenneth J. Breslauer
Kenneth J. Breslauer Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Laurence S. Romsted
Laurence S. Romsted Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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