Recent progress in the science of complex coacervation

CE Sing, SL Perry - Soft Matter, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Complex coacervation is an associative, liquid–liquid phase separation that can occur in
solutions of oppositely-charged macromolecular species, such as proteins, polymers, and …

50th Anniversary Perspective: A Perspective on Polyelectrolyte Solutions

M Muthukumar - Macromolecules, 2017 - ACS Publications
From the beginning of life with the information-containing polymers until the present era of a
plethora of water-based materials in health care industry and biotechnology, polyelectrolytes …

Mussel adhesion–essential footwork

JH Waite - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2017 - journals.biologists.com
Robust adhesion to wet, salt-encrusted, corroded and slimy surfaces has been an essential
adaptation in the life histories of sessile marine organisms for hundreds of millions of years …

Phase behavior and salt partitioning in polyelectrolyte complex coacervates

L Li, S Srivastava, M Andreev, AB Marciel… - …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Polyelectrolyte complexes are omnipresent both in nature and in the technological world,
including nucleotide condensates, biological marine adhesives, food stabilizers …

Dehydration entropy drives liquid-liquid phase separation by molecular crowding

S Park, R Barnes, Y Lin, B Jeon, S Najafi… - Communications …, 2020 - nature.com
Complex coacervation driven liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) of biopolymers has
been attracting attention as a novel phase in living cells. Studies of LLPS in this context are …

The polyelectrolyte complex/coacervate continuum

Q Wang, JB Schlenoff - Macromolecules, 2014 - ACS Publications
Stoichiometric polyelectrolyte complexes (PECs) of the strong polyelectrolytes poly
(styrenesulfonate)(PSS) and poly (diallyldimethylammonium)(PDADMA) were dissociated …

Ion-pairing strength in polyelectrolyte complexes

J Fu, HM Fares, JB Schlenoff - Macromolecules, 2017 - ACS Publications
Polyelectrolyte complexes, PECs, are spontaneously formed blends of polyelectrolytes
bearing positive, Pol+, and negative, Pol–, repeat units. Many interesting PEC morphologies …

Complex coacervate‐based materials for biomedicine

WC Blocher, SL Perry - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
There has been increasing interest in complex coacervates for deriving and transporting
biomaterials. Complex coacervates are a dense, polyelectrolyte‐rich liquid that results from …

Development of the modern theory of polymeric complex coacervation

CE Sing - Advances in colloid and interface science, 2017 - Elsevier
Oppositely charged polymers can undergo the process of complex coacervation, which
refers to a liquid–liquid phase separation driven by electrostatic attraction. These materials …

Molecular design of chemically fueled peptide–polyelectrolyte coacervate-based assemblies

F Späth, C Donau, AM Bergmann… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Complex coacervated-based assemblies form when two oppositely charged polyelectrolytes
combine to phase separate into a supramolecular architecture. These architectures range …