For more than 90 years, chemists have been fascinated by polyelectrolyte complexes that form after solutions of two oppositely charged polymers are mixed. A better understanding of these complexes ...

Polyelectrolyte brushes look a bit like soft bushes, such as shoeshine brushes, but they are on the scale of large molecules and the "bristles" are made of polymer chains.

Understanding the fundamentals of designing polyelectrolyte coatings, which can be seen as a bio-inspired approach due to chemical sequences that are analogous to proteins at a molecular level, ...

The polysaccharide polyelectrolyte complex coatings performed well in research, the findings of which were published recently in Green Chemistry.Paperboard coated with the biomaterial, comprised ...

The ‘Layer-by-layer’ (LbL) method allows the self-assembly of polyelectrolyte multilayers by alternating adsorption of polyanions and polycations to interfaces, providing a route towards versatile ...

In addition to the design and development of new nanoporous polymer materials based on LC starting materials, our research group has recently been involved in the design and synthesis of new type of ...

In this context we are employing polyelectrolyte adsorption, driven by electrostatic interaction. Multiple adsorption steps, alternating between polycations and polyanions yield so-called ...

Furthermore, they utilized a polyelectrolyte (P3CT-Na) thin film as hole transporting material instead of commonly-used thin films based on PEDOT:PSS. The penetration of the solvents is said not ...

There is a negative relationship between Zeta potential and polyelectrolyte concentration, as the former decreases when the latter is decreased. This is due to the increasing ionic strength of the ...