Influence of the hydrophobicity of polyelectrolytes on polyelectrolyte complex formation and complex particle structure and shape

Polymers

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1363-1376

  Mende, Mandy ^a   Schwarz, Simona ^a   Zschoche, Stefan ^a   Petzold, Gudrun ^a   Janke, Andreas ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF POLYMER RESEARCH DRESDEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atomic force microscopy; Dynamic light scattering; Hydrophobicity; Polyelectrolyte complex

Indexed keywords

AFM; COLLOIDAL STABILITY; COMONOMERS; COMPLEX PARTICLES; MALEIC ANHYDRIDE COPOLYMERS; PARTICLE AGGREGATES; POLYELECTROLYTE COMPLEX; POLYELECTROLYTE COMPLEXES; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ROUGHNESS; SURFACE PROFILES;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BUTENES; COPOLYMERS; DYNAMIC LIGHT SCATTERING; ETHYLENE; FRACTAL DIMENSION; HYDROPHOBICITY; MALEIC ANHYDRIDE; MICA; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; POLYELECTROLYTES; SCATTERING; STYRENE;

AGGLOMERATION;

EID: 83655193330     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/polym3031363     Document Type: Article

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