A joint theoretical and experimental study is devoted to the swelling and electrical
conductivity of highly charged polyelectrolyte (PE) gels in media of different polarity …

Polyelectrolyte gels are ionizable, crosslinked polymer networks swollen in a solvent. These
materials are prevalent in biological and synthetic applications ranging from the extracellular …

Ion specificity of multivalent counterions plays an important role in determining the structures
and functionalities of the polyelectrolyte brushes. Herein, using molecular dynamics …

We report a dissipative dynamic simulation study of a polyelectrolyte chain conformational
behavior with small and bulky counterions. The size of the small counterions was equal to …

Conformational behavior of a single strongly charged polyelectrolyte chain in a dilute
solution is studied by molecular dynamics simulations. The novel feature of the model is …

We report a combined experimental and theoretical study on the swelling behavior of
polyelectrolyte gels with various types of counterions. Experimental research was focused …

In this work, the self-assembly behaviors of diblock copolymers consisting of one
hydrophobic block and one ionizable polyelectrolyte (PE) block in the presence of …

The interaction between lightly cross-linked poly (acrylic acid) microgels and oppositely
charged peptides was investigated as a function of peptide length, charge density, pH, and …

Novel ion-stimulus-responsive copolymeric hydrogels were synthesized by free radical
crosslinking copolymerization from the monomers N, N-dimethylaminoethyl methacrylate …

We report on the structure of dendritic polyelectrolytes accompanied by counterions in a
good, salt-free, implicit solvent using Langevin dynamics simulations and a Flory-type …