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 …

Highlights•Liquid-liquid phase separation underlies the formation of membraneless
organelles within cells.•Theory and molecular simulations help to relate interactions at the …

Liquid-liquid phase separation of charge-and/or aromatic-enriched intrinsically disordered
proteins (IDPs) is critical in the biological function of membraneless organelles. Much of the …

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

Coacervation of proteins and anionic polysaccharides is both of practical and theoretical
interest. From a large body of literature, it seems that the phase separation is mainly …

We extend and generalize the scaling picture of de Genneset al. and Pfeuty to both
unentangled and entangled regimes of intrinsically flexible polyelectrolyte solutions. In …

A wide variety of two-and three-dimensional physical-chemical systems display domain
patterns in equilibrium. The phenomenology of these patterns, and of the shapes of their …

Chain-like macromolecules (polymers) show characteristic adsorption properties due to their
flexibility and internal degrees of freedom, when attracted to surfaces and interfaces. In this …

This review covers the recent advances in studies of the volume phase transition and critical
phenomena of polymer gels mostly carried out in our group from 1973 to the present. We …

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