Screening in solutions of star-branched polyelectrolytes

Macromolecules

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 2365-2377

  Klein Wolterink, J ^a   Leermakers, F A M ^a   Fleer, G J ^a   Koopal, L K ^a   Zhulina, E B ^b,c   Borisov, O V ^a,c,d  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS   (Russian Federation)

^d BASF SE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION EFFECTS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONFORMATIONS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NUMERICAL METHODS; SALTS;

INTRAMOLECULAR COULOMBIC REPULSION; SELF-CONSISTENT FIELD (SCF) METHOD;

POLYELECTROLYTES;

EID: 0003377254     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma981501w     Document Type: Article

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