Structure of strongly charged polyelectrolyte solutions

Macromolecules

Volumn 39, Issue 24, 2006, Pages 8467-8472

  Donley, James P ^a,c   Heine, David R ^b,d  

^a BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c Valence Technology Inc   (United States)

^d Corning Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY CORRELATIONS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; OSMOMETRY EXPERIMENTS; SEMIDILUTE SOLUTIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; HYDROPHILICITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; POLYMERS;

POLYELECTROLYTES;

EID: 33846125550     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma0607012     Document Type: Article

References (53)

1. Förster, S.; Schmidt, M. Adv. Polym. Sci. 1995, 120, 52 and references therein.
2. Sedlak, M. In Physical Chemistry of Polyelectrolytes, Surfactant Science Series; Radeva, T., Ed.; Marcel Dekker: New York, 2001; Vol. 99, p 1.
3. Sedlak, M. J. Chem. Phys. 2002, 116, 5246, 5256.
4. de Gennes, P.-G.; Pincus, P.; Velasco, R. M.; Brochard, F. J. Phys. (Paris) 1976, 37, 1461.
5. Dobrynin, A. V.; Rubinstein, M. Prog. Polym. Sci. 2005, 30, 1049 and references therein.
6. Nishida, K.; Kaji, K.; Kanaya, T. Macromolecules 1995, 28, 2472.
7. Essafi, W.; Lafuma, F.; Williams, C. E. Eur. Phys. J. B 1999, 9, 261.
8. Essafi, W.; Lafuma, F.; Baigl, D.; Williams, C. E. Eur. Phys. Lett. 2005, 77, 938.
9. For polyelectroltyes in water at room temperature, multivalent ions tend to cause different behavior such as polymer collapse and phase separation. The analyis here then is restricted to solutions with monovalent counterions, the two most common being sodium and chloride.
10. Matsuoka, H.; Schwahn, D.; Ise, N. Macromolecules 1991, 24, 4227.
11. Smits, R. G.; Kuil, M. E.; Mandel, M. Macromolecules 1994, 27, 5599.
12. Wissenburg, P.; Odijk, T.; Cirkel, P.; Mandel, M. Macromolecules 1995, 28, 2315.
13. Sedlak, M. J. Chem. Phys. 1996, 705, 10123.
14. Borsali, R.; Nguyen, H.; Pecora, R. Macromolecules 1998, 31, 1548.
15. Ermi, B. D.; Amis, E. J. Macromolecules 1998, 31, 7378.
16. Donley, J. P.; Heine, D. R.; Wu, D. T. Phys. Rev. E 2004, 70, 060201 (R).
17. Donley, J. P.; Heine, D. R.; Wu, D. T. Macromolecules 2005, 38, 1007.
18. Laria, D.; Wu, D.; Chandler, D. J. Chem. Phys. 1991, 95, 4444.
19. Shew, C.-Y.; Yethiraj, A. J. Chem. Phys. 1997, 106, 5706.
20. Donley, J. P.; Rajasekaran, J. J.; Liu, A. J. J. Chem. Phys. 1998, 709, 10499.
21. Donley, J. P. J. Chem. Phys. 2002, 116, 5315;
22. 2004, 720, 1661.
23. Borue, V. Y.; Erukhimovich, I. Y. Macromolecules 1988, 21, 3240.
24. Joanny, J. F.; Leibler, L. J. Phys. (Paris) 1990, 51, 545.
25. Andersen, H. C.; Chandler, D. J. Chem. Phys. 1971, 55, 1497.
26. An alternative way to deal with the breakdown of the RPA at short to intermediate distances for the free energy is given in: Ermoshkin, A. V.; Olvera de la Cruz, M. Macromolecules 2003, 36, 7824.
27. MkM′k′(r)
28. Melenkevitz, J.; Schweizer, K. S.; Curro, J. G. Macromolecules 1993, 26, 6190.
29. Yethiraj, A. J. Chem. Phys. 1998, 108, 1184.
30. Heine, D.; Wu, D. T.; Curro, J. G.; Grest, G. S. J. Chem. Phys. 2003, 778, 914.
31. Gonzalez-Mozuelos, P.; Olvera de la Cruz, M. J. Chem. Phys. 1995, 103 3145.
32. Solis, F. J.; Olvera de la Cruz, M. J. Chem. Phys. 2000, 112, 2030.
33. Manning, G. S. J. Chem. Phys. 1969. 51, 924.
34. Oosawa, F. Polyelectrolytes; Marcel Dekker: New York, 1971.
35. Nyquist, R. M.; Ha, B.-Y.; Liu, A. J. Macromolecules 1999, 32, 3481.
36. Stevens, M. J.; Kremer, K. J. Chem. Phys. 1995, 103, 1669.
37. cc was at most a few (5) percent.
38. Plimpton, S. J. J. Comput. Phys. 1995, 117, 1.
39. Liao, Q.; Dobrynin, A. V.; Rubinstein, M. Macromolecules 2003, 36, 3386, 3399.
40. m in the two-state to be the same as the primitive.
41. Combet, J.; Isel, F.; Rawiso, M.; Boue, F. Macromolecules 2005, 38, 7456.
42. 26
43. eff ≈ 0.45 at f = 1.0.
44. Dobrynin, A. V.; Colby, R. H.; Rubinstein, M. Macromolecules 1995, 28, 1859.
45. The relevance of the thermodynamic inconsistency problem to the RO-RPA theory is discussed in more detail in (I), section 3.3.
46. Pütz, M.; Curro, J. G.; Grest, G. S. J. Chem. Phys. 2001, 114, 2847.
47. Curro, J. G.; Webb, E. B.; Grest, G. S.; Weinhold, J. D.; Pütz, M.; McCoy, J. D. J. Chem. Phys. 1999, 111, 9073.
48. Higgins, J. S.; Benoit, H. C. Polymers and Neutron Scattering; Clarendon Press: Oxford, 1994.
49. Wang, L.; Bloomfield, V. A. Macromolecules 1990, 23, 804 and references therein.
50. Ha, B.-Y.; Liu, A. J Phys. Rev. E 1999, 60, 803.
51. Phillies, G. D. J. Macromolecules 2001, 34, 8745 and references therein.
52. Michel, R. C.; Reed, W. F. Biopolymers 2000, 53, 19.
53. Sorci, G. A.; Reed, W. F. Macromolecules 2002, 35, 5218.