Direct measurement of the strength of single ionic bonds between hydrated charges

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 5297-5303

  Spruijt, Evan ^a   Van Den Berg, Sebastiaan A ^a   Cohen Stuart, Martien A ^a   Van Der Gucht, Jasper ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

AFM; complex coacervate; electrostatics; ionic bond; polyelectrolyte; polyelectrolyte complex; single molecule force spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

AFM; COACERVATE; IONIC BONDS; POLYELECTROLYTE COMPLEXES; SINGLE MOLECULE FORCE SPECTROSCOPY;

ELECTROSTATICS; POLYELECTROLYTES;

IONIC STRENGTH;

ELECTROLYTE; ION; WATER;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMISTRY; MATERIALS TESTING; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

ELECTROLYTES; IONS; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; STATIC ELECTRICITY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; WATER;

EID: 84862892395     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn301097y     Document Type: Article

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