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Attraction force generated by the counterions shared between the DNA and the mica. We assume that only the divalent counterions can participate in the surface neutralization and we neglect the effect of thermal motion (T = 0 K). b is the distance of separation between the counterion sites and d represents the distance between the DNA and mica counterion layers. The calculations are performed for a 1444-bp DNA.
