  Colloidal suspensions and polyelectrolyte solutions containing multivalent
counterions can exhibit some very counter-intuitive behavior usually associated
with the low temperature physics. There are two particularly striking phenomena
resulting from strong electrostatic correlations. One is the like-charge
attraction and the second is the polyion overcharging. In this contribution we
will concentrate on the problem of overcharging. In particular we will explore
the kinetic limitation to colloidal charge inversion in suspensions containing
multivalent counterions.
