Counterion adsorption on flexible polyelectrolytes: Comparison of theories

Macromolecules

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1370-1379

  Kumar, Rajeev ^a   Kundagrami, Arindam ^a   Muthukumar, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION ENERGIES; ANALYSIS OF VARIOUS; COMPUTATIONAL PROCEDURES; COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS; CONTRIBUTING FACTOR; COUNTERION; COUNTERIONS; DEGREE OF IONIZATION; ELECTROSTATIC ENERGIES; FLEXIBLE POLYELECTROLYTES; MONOMER DENSITY; POISSON-BOLTZMANN; POLYELECTROLYTE CHAIN; QUANTITATIVE AGREEMENT; SELF-CONSISTENT-FIELD THEORY; SMALL IONS; SPHERICAL CAVITIES; TOTAL FREE ENERGY; TRANSLATIONAL ENTROPIES; VARIATIONAL CALCULATION; VARIATIONAL THEORY;

ADSORPTION; ELECTROSTATICS; FREE ENERGY; IONS; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; MONOMERS; POLYELECTROLYTES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

IONIZATION;

EID: 66549086766     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma801799e     Document Type: Article

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