Structural effects in overcharging in complexes of hyperbranched polymers with linear polyelectrolytes

Sergey Lyulin; Kostas Karatasos; Anatolij Darinskii; Sergey Larin; Alexey Lyulin

doi:10.1039/b716647h

Structural effects in overcharging in complexes of hyperbranched polymers with linear polyelectrolytes

Soft Matter. 2008 Feb 21;4(3):453-457. doi: 10.1039/b716647h.

Authors

Sergey Lyulin¹, Kostas Karatasos², Anatolij Darinskii¹, Sergey Larin¹, Alexey Lyulin³

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Macromolecular Compounds, Russian Academy of Sciences, Bolshoj pr. 31, St. Petersburg, 199004, Russia. serge@macro.ru.
² Physical Chemistry Laboratory, Chemical Engineering Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, 54124, Greece. kkaratas@auth.gr.
³ Group Polymer Physics, Eindhoven Polymer Laboratories and Dutch Polymer Institute, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, P.O. Box 513, MB Eindhoven, 5600, The Netherlands. a.v.lyulin@tue.nl.

PMID: 32907203
DOI: 10.1039/b716647h

Abstract

New insight is provided by a combined theoretical and simulational approach regarding the effects of structural characteristics of the constituents, on the overcharging phenomena in complexes formed by hyperbranched polymers with linear polyelectrolytes.