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50th Anniversary Perspective: A Perspective on Polyelectrolyte Solutions
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From the beginning of life with the information-containing polymers until the present era of a plethora of water-based materials in health care industry and biotechnology, polyelectrolytes are ubiquitous with a broad range of structural and functional properties. The main attribute of polyelectrolyte solutions is that all molecules are strongly correlated both topologically and electrostatically in their neutralizing background of charged ions in highly polarizable solvent. These strong correlations and the necessary use of numerous variables in experiments on polyelectrolytes have presented immense challenges toward fundamental understanding of the various behaviors of charged polymeric systems. This Perspective presents the author's subjective summary of several conceptual advances and the remaining persistent challenges in the contexts of charge and size of polymers, structures in homogeneous solutions, thermodynamic instability and phase transitions, structural evolution with oppositely charged polymers, dynamics in polyelectrolyte solutions, kinetics of phase separation, mobility of charged macromolecules between compartments, and implications to biological systems.
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- Authors
- Muthukumar, M.
- Venue
- Macromolecules
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Published
- 2017-12-14
- Volume
- 50
- Issue
- 24
- Pages
- 9528-9560
- ISSN
- 0024-9297 (ISSN-L)
- 1520-5835
- OpenAlex
- W2772283214
- Cited by
- 502
- References
- 88
- FWCI
- 25.38
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
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