1. Polyelectrolyte Cylindrical Brushes in Hairy Gels.
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Zhulina, Ekaterina B. and Borisov, Oleg V.
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POLYIONS , *NANORODS , *DISPERSION (Chemistry) , *SPINE , *SOLUBILITY , *POLYMERS , *DEIONIZATION of water - Abstract
We considered dispersions of cylindrical polyelectrolyte (PE) brushes with stiff backbones, and polymer-decorated nanorods with tunable solubility of the brush-forming PE chains that affected thermodynamic stability of the dispersions. We focused on thermo-induced and deionization-induced conformational transition that provokes loss of aggregative dispersion stability of nanorods decorated with weakly ionized polyions. A comparison between theoretical predictions and experiments enabled rationalization and semi-quantitative interpretation of the experimental results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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