Polyelectrolytes are polymers carrying either positively or negatively charged ionizable
groups. The properties of these polymers in solutions and at charged surfaces depend on …

Adhesion of noncovalent complexes formed between complementary polymers bearing
functional groups capable of hydrogen bonding or ionic interactions is reviewed. The …

Polymer gels have two types of concentration fluctuations; liquidlike and solidlike
fluctuations. The former are time‐dependent (thermal) fluctuations and the latter are time …

We employ effective interaction potentials between spherical polyelectrolyte microgels in
order to investigate theoretically the structure, thermodynamics, and phase behavior of ionic …

Polyelectrolytes are macromolecules with ionizable groups. In this perspective, I will present
a brief history of polyelectrolytes starting from the seminal papers published in the first half of …

A self-consistent field theory is applied to inhomogeneous polyelectrolyte systems. We
consider the smeared and the annealed charge distributions, corresponding to strongly and …

Polyelectrolytes in solution show a broad plethora of interesting effects. In this short review
article, we focus on recent theoretical and computational findings regarding specific ion and …

Four polyelectrolyte gels consisting of acrylic acid (AA) and N-isopropylacrylamide (NIPA)
were prepared using the following methods:(i) the usual redox polymerization of an aqueous …

The instability of a homogeneous complex coacervate phase induced by incompatibility of
oppositely charged polyelectrolytes is studied by means of the random phase approximation …

A theory of inhomogeneous multicomponent systems containing weakly charged
polyelectrolytes is developed. The theory treats the polymer conformation and the …