@article{brilliantov98a,
        title = {Chain collapse and counterion condensation in dilute polyelectrolyte
	solutions},
        author = {N. V. Brilliantov and D. V. Kuznetsov and R. Klein},
        journal = {Phys. Rev. Lett.},
        number = 7,
        pages = {1433--1436},
        volume = 81,
        year = 1998,
        abstract = {A quantitative theory for polyelectrolytes in salt-free dilute solutions
	is developed. Depending on the electrostatic interaction strength,
	polyelectrolytes in solutions can undergo strong stretching (with
	polyelectrolyte dimension R-g similar to l(B)(1/3)N where l(B) is
	the Bjerrum length and N is the number of the chain segments) or
	compression (with R-g similar to l(B)(-1/2) N-1/3). A strong polymer
	collapse occurs as a first-order phase transition due to accompanying
	counterion condensation.},
	biburl = {http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2ca6e0e125895198955a1fda9a59a63e8/kaigrass},
	keywords = {theory. Quantitative polyelectrolytes. Globule. rigid To-coil Interacting Radius. transition.}
}