Peptides have been extensively utilized to construct nanomaterials that display targeted
structure through hierarchical assembly. The self-assembly of both rationally designed …

Complex coacervation is an associative, liquid–liquid phase separation that can occur in
solutions of oppositely-charged macromolecular species, such as proteins, polymers, and …

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 …

Polyelectrolyte complex coacervates represent a wide class of materials with applications
ranging from coatings and adhesives to pharmaceutical technologies. They also underpin …

There is notable discrepancy between experiments and coarse-grained model studies
regarding the thermodynamic driving force in polyelectrolyte complex coacervation …

Polyelectrolyte complexes are omnipresent both in nature and in the technological world,
including nucleotide condensates, biological marine adhesives, food stabilizers …

A number of intrinsically disordered proteins have been shown to self-assemble via liquid–
liquid phase separation into protein-rich and dilute phases. The resulting coacervates can …

Biomacromolecules rely on the precise placement of monomers to encode information for
structure, function, and physiology. Efforts to emulate this complexity via the synthetic control …

Polyelectrolyte complex coacervates of homologous (co) polyelectrolytes with a near-ideally
random distribution of a charged and neutral ethylene oxide comonomer were synthesized …

Scattering investigations of the structure and chain conformations, and the rheological
properties of polyelectrolyte complexes (PECs) comprising model polyelectrolytes are …