Recent progress in the science of complex coacervation

CE Sing, SL Perry - Soft Matter, 2020‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Complex coacervation is an associative, liquid–liquid phase separation that can occur in
solutions of oppositely-charged macromolecular species, such as proteins, polymers, and …

50th Anniversary Perspective: A Perspective on Polyelectrolyte Solutions

M Muthukumar - Macromolecules, 2017‏ - ACS Publications
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 …

Complete phase diagram for liquid–liquid phase separation of intrinsically disordered proteins

J McCarty, KT Delaney, SPO Danielsen… - The journal of …, 2019‏ - ACS Publications
A number of intrinsically disordered proteins have been shown to self-assemble via liquid–
liquid phase separation into protein-rich and dilute phases. The resulting coacervates can …

Polyelectrolyte complex coacervates: Recent developments and new frontiers

AM Rumyantsev, NE Jackson… - Annual Review of …, 2021‏ - annualreviews.org
Polyelectrolyte complex coacervates represent a wide class of materials with applications
ranging from coatings and adhesives to pharmaceutical technologies. They also underpin …

Development of the modern theory of polymeric complex coacervation

CE Sing - Advances in colloid and interface science, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Oppositely charged polymers can undergo the process of complex coacervation, which
refers to a liquid–liquid phase separation driven by electrostatic attraction. These materials …

Designing electrostatic interactions via polyelectrolyte monomer sequence

TK Lytle, LW Chang, N Markiewicz, SL Perry… - ACS central …, 2019‏ - ACS Publications
Charged polymers are ubiquitous in biological systems because electrostatic interactions
can drive complicated structure formation and respond to environmental parameters such as …

[HTML][HTML] Theory of polyelectrolyte complexation—Complex coacervates are self-coacervates

KT Delaney, GH Fredrickson - The Journal of chemical physics, 2017‏ - pubs.aip.org
The complexation of mixtures of cationic and anionic polymers to produce complex-
coacervate phases is a subject of fundamental importance to colloid and polymer science as …

Molecular connectivity and correlation effects on polymer coacervation

M Radhakrishna, K Basu, Y Liu, R Shamsi… - …, 2017‏ - ACS Publications
Our ability to predict the thermodynamic phase behavior of a material system is a direct
reflection on our understanding of the relevant interactions. Voorn–Overbeek (VO) theory …

Molecular design of self-coacervation phenomena in block polyampholytes

SPO Danielsen, J McCarty, JE Shea… - Proceedings of the …, 2019‏ - pnas.org
Coacervation is a common phenomenon in natural polymers and has been applied to
synthetic materials systems for coatings, adhesives, and encapsulants. Single-component …

Prism-based theory of complex coacervation: Excluded volume versus chain correlation

SL Perry, CE Sing - Macromolecules, 2015‏ - ACS Publications
Aqueous solutions of oppositely charged polyelectrolytes can undergo liquid–liquid phase
separation into materials known as complex coacervates. These coacervates have been a …