This review summarizes the current understanding of adsorption of polyelectrolytes to
oppositely charged solid substrates, the resulting interaction forces between such …

Soft matter materials, such as polymers, membranes, proteins, are often electrically charged.
This makes them water soluble, which is of great importance in technological application …

Molecules drift along temperature gradients, an effect called thermophoresis, the Soret
effect, or thermodiffusion. In liquids, its theoretical foundation is the subject of a long …

We studied systematically aqueous suspensions of amorphous well-characterized silica
particles by potentiometric titration, electrophoretic mobility, and time-resolved light …

Ion specific effects of monovalent salts on charging and aggregation for two types of
polystyrene latex particles were investigated by electrophoresis and time-resolved light …

Friction exists everywhere. Tribocatalytic dye decomposition is a recent and promising
wastewater treatment technology, in which the ordinary phenomenon of mechanical friction …

Branched polyelectrolytes with cylindrical brush, dendritic, hyperbranched, grafted, and star
architectures bearing ionizable functional groups possess complex and unique assembly …

A strong fluorescence emission from poly (amido amine)(PAMAM) dendrimers with different
terminal groups or a poly (propylene imine)(PPI) dendrimer was studied under different …

Repulsive electrostatic double-layer forces are responsible for the stabilization of charged
colloidal particles in the presence of adsorbed polyelectrolytes of opposite and high line …

Recent progress in understanding the effect of electrostatics in soft matter is presented. A
vast number of materials contain ions, ranging from the molecular scale (eg electrolyte) to …