3 papers
cond-mat.soft2026
Cosolvency response in polymer brushes
Huaisong Yong, Binyu Zhao
We present the first analytic theory with elegant and closed-form analytical solutions to explore the cosolvency effect in polymer brushes, where polymer chains that are poorly sol…
cond-mat.soft2024
Why can a hydrophilic polyelectrolyte precipitate and redissolve below the critical micelle concentration of an oppositely-charged surfactant ?
Huaisong Yong
We theoretically study the reentrant condensation of a polyelectrolyte in the presence of an oppositely-charged surfactant,a phenomenon whose phase-transition mechanism remains und…
cond-mat.soft2024
The reentrant condensation of polyelectrolytes induced by diluted multivalent salts: A mean-field level revisiting
Huaisong Yong, Bilin Zhuang, Sissi de Beer
We study the reentrant condensation of polyelectrolytes in dilute solutions of small multivalent salts, whose phase-transition mechanism remains poorly understood. Motivated by rec…