Contraction and Coagulation of Spherical Polyelectrolyte
Brushes in the Presence of Ag+, Mg2+, and Ca2+ Cations
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Unlike
Na+ cations, which interact with fully neutralized
poly(acrylic acid) as purely electrostatic entities, cations like
Ag+, Mg2+, and Ca2+ exhibit specific
interactions with the COO– residues of anionic polyacrylates.
The present work analyzes the interaction of all four cations with
a layer of polyacrylate chains grafted onto spherical polystyrene
core as an outer shell. First and foremost the analysis answers the
question on how these specific interactions influence the nature of
the shell and solution behavior of the spherical polyelectrolyte brushes.
It could be unambiguously demonstrated that Ag+, Mg2+, and Ca2+ cations induce a drastic shrinking
of the polyacrylate shells at cation concentrations lower by 2–3
orders of magnitude compared to the transition of a fully stretched
osmotic brush to a shrunken salted brush accomplished with Na+ cations. Ag+ induces a particularly abrupt contraction,
which comes close to the annealing of such brushes achieved with a
neutralization by protons. Finally, the solution behavior of the brushes
in the presence of Ag+ and Ca2+ cations is compared
with the respective pattern of molecularly dissolved linear polyacrylate
chains in terms of phase diagrams.
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Ezhova, Anna; Huber, Klaus (2016). Contraction and Coagulation of Spherical Polyelectrolyte
Brushes in the Presence of Ag+, Mg2+, and Ca2+ Cations. ACS Publications. Collection. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.6b01286
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