Polyelectrolytes are polymers carrying either positively or negatively charged ionizable
groups. The properties of these polymers in solutions and at charged surfaces depend on …

Chain-like macromolecules (polymers) show characteristic adsorption properties due to their
flexibility and internal degrees of freedom, when attracted to surfaces and interfaces. In this …

Into an extended Voorn–Overbeek (EVO) free energy model of polyelectrolyte (PE)
complexation and phase behavior, we incorporate three classes of short-ranged …

Dilute or semidilute solutions of polyelectrolytes show below a critical temperature the
phenomenon of counterion condensation. This effect leads (a) to a decrease of the effective …

The collapse of flexible polyelectrolytes in a solution of multivalent counterions is studied by
means of a two state model. The states correspond to rodlike and spherically collapsed …

Molecular dynamics simulations of a simple, bead-spring model of semiflexible
polyelectrolytes such as DNA are performed. All charges are explicitly treated. Starting from …

We address the effects of chain connectivity on electrostaticfluctuations in polyelectrolyte
solutions using a field-theoretic, renormalizedGaussian fluctuation (RGF) theory. As in …

We study the phase behavior of polyelectrolyte (PE) solutions with salt using a simple liquid-
state (LS) theory. This LS theory accounts for hard-core excluded volume repulsion by the …

Polyelectrolytes are macromolecules with ionizable groups. In this perspective, I will present
a brief history of polyelectrolytes starting from the seminal papers published in the first half of …

Herein, we report a straightforward, scalable synthetic route towards poly (ionic liquid)(PIL)
homopolymer nanovesicles (NVs) with a tunable particle size of 50 to 120 nm and a shell …