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 …

Polyelectrolyte complex coacervates: Recent developments and new frontiers

AM Rumyantsev, NE Jackson… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Polyelectrolyte complex coacervates represent a wide class of materials with applications
ranging from coatings and adhesives to pharmaceutical technologies. They also underpin …

[HTML][HTML] Saloplastics and the polyelectrolyte complex continuum: Advances, challenges and prospects

JK Bediako, ESM Mouele, Y El Ouardi… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Polyelectrolytes (PEs) are macromolecules that possess repeating units of ionizable groups
in addition to counterions. Polyelectrolyte complexes (PECs) emanate from the entropy …

An overview of coacervates: The special disperse state of amphiphilic and polymeric materials in solution

SP Moulik, AK Rakshit, A Pan, B Naskar - Colloids and Interfaces, 2022 - mdpi.com
Individual amphiphiles, polymers, and colloidal dispersions influenced by temperature, pH,
and environmental conditions or interactions between their oppositely charged pairs in …

A coacervate-based mixed-conducting binder for high-power, high-energy batteries

GT Pace, ML Le, RJ Clément, RA Segalman - ACS Energy Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Polymer binders add crucial structural integrity to lithium ion battery composite cathodes, but
industry standard binders, such as polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF), are insulating to ions and …

Conjugated Polymers: Where we Come from, where we Stand, and where we Might Go

K Müllen, U Scherf - Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Conjugated polymers (CPs) are electronic materials which always attract the joint attention
of synthetic chemistry, physics, and engineering. The present article deals with “classical” …

Bridging field theory and ion pairing in the modeling of polyelectrolytes and complex coacervation

CE Sing, J Qin - Macromolecules, 2023 - ACS Publications
Complex coacervation is a phase separation phenomenon driven by the electrostatic
attraction between oppositely charged macromolecular species. A recent surge of interest in …

Mixed Ion–Electron-Conducting Polymer Complexes as High-Rate Battery Binders

G Pace, A Zele, P Nguyen, RJ Clément… - Chemistry of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Next-generation battery binders must have both the adhesive properties of traditional
binders [ie, polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF)] as well as high electronic and lithium ion …

Linear viscoelasticity and time–alcohol superposition of chitosan/hyaluronic acid complex coacervates

J Sun, JD Schiffman, SL Perry - ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 2022 - ACS Publications
Complex coacervation is an associative liquid–liquid phase separation phenomenon
resulting from the complexation of oppositely charged macroions. While it is well-known that …

Ion pairing and the structure of gel coacervates

SPO Danielsen, S Panyukov, M Rubinstein - Macromolecules, 2020 - ACS Publications
A scaling model for the structure of coacervates is presented for mixtures of oppositely
charged polyelectrolytes of both symmetric and asymmetric charge densities for different …