Dielectric increment in polyion solutions due to the distortion of counterion distribution.

A theory of DC dielectric increment, delta, has been constructed based on the Fokker- Planck and Poisson equations on the mechanism of the distortion of spatial counterion distribution around a rodlike polyion under the applied electric field, E, perpendicular to the polyion lod. The DC dielectric constant of polyion solutions can be obtained analytically in the both cases of absence and presence of counterion-flow. The nonlinearity of the Poisson-Boltzmann equation in the absence of E has given the interesting behaviors of delta. The calculation in the absence of counterion-flow has shown the delta-values having the same order of magnitude as the experimental data at the higher frequency range (around 100 kHz), and the importance of this mechanism has been pointed out.