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Multi-valent Ion Mediated Polyelectrolyte Association and Structure
Alec Glisman, Sriteja Mantha, Decai Yu +3
Polyelectrolytes are commonly used to chelate multi-valent ions in aqueous solutions, playing a critical role in water softening and the prevention of mineralization. At sufficient…
Charge Asymmetry Suppresses Coarsening Dynamics in Polyelectrolyte Complex Coacervation
Shensheng Chen, Zhen-Gang Wang
Mixing solutions of oppositely charged macromolecules can result in liquid-liquid phase separation into a polymer-rich coacervate phase and a polymer-poor supernatant phase. Here w…
Topological Forces in a Model System for Reptation Dynamics
Ahmad K. Omar, Yuyuan Lu, Lijia An +1
We construct a micromechanical version of an early model for topologically constrained polymers -- a 2D chain amongst point-like uncrossable obstacles -- which allows us to explici…
An efficient dissipative particle dynamics-based algorithm for simulating electrolyte solutions
Stefan Medina, Jiajia Zhou, Zhen-Gang Wang +1
We propose an efficient simulation algorithm based on the dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) method for studying electrohydrodynamic phenomena in electrolyte fluids. The fluid flo…
Theory of Polymer Chains in Poor Solvent: Single-Chain Structure, Solution Thermodynamics and Theta Point
Rui Wang, Zhen-Gang Wang
Using the language of the Flory chi parameter, we develop a theory that unifies the treatment of the single-chain structure and the solution thermodynamics of polymers in poor solv…