Polyelectrolytes: Theory, Properties and Applications

Adsorption of Polyelectrolytes onto Charged Surfaces 31 is possible to highlight: charge density of the polymer chains and of th ...

32 Sara Llamas, Laura Fernández-Peña, Ana Mateos-Maroto et al. 2. THEORETICAL STUDIES ON THE ADSORPTION OF POLYELECTROLYTE ONTO ...

Adsorption of Polyelectrolytes onto Charged Surfaces 33 homogenous layers [55, 56]. However, this naive approach is rather limit ...

34 Sara Llamas, Laura Fernández-Peña, Ana Mateos-Maroto et al. 2 22 2 B d sinh 4 l f dz        (4) where κ and lB are the ...

Adsorption of Polyelectrolytes onto Charged Surfaces 35 2 2 el 1        (7) where el is the blob size, and Δσ is ...

36 Sara Llamas, Laura Fernández-Peña, Ana Mateos-Maroto et al. Borukhov et al. [59] proposed that a correct description of the p ...

Adsorption of Polyelectrolytes onto Charged Surfaces 37 inert salt, the polyelectrolyte presents a rod-like conformation formed ...

38 Sara Llamas, Laura Fernández-Peña, Ana Mateos-Maroto et al. The adsorbed layer presents a thickness defined as 1 D (l fN )B  ...

Adsorption of Polyelectrolytes onto Charged Surfaces 39 electrostatic attraction monomer-surface and the short-range repulsion b ...

40 Sara Llamas, Laura Fernández-Peña, Ana Mateos-Maroto et al. (z yps) sp 3 1e 2     (21) Combining the equations 20 and 21 ...

Adsorption of Polyelectrolytes onto Charged Surfaces 41 necessary to define an effective disk radius, Reffd , to account for the ...

42 Sara Llamas, Laura Fernández-Peña, Ana Mateos-Maroto et al. proposed by Dobrynin and Rubinstein [71-73]. However, this model ...

Adsorption of Polyelectrolytes onto Charged Surfaces 43 Ka       (29) where Γ and Γ∞ represent the adsorbed amount and ...

44 Sara Llamas, Laura Fernández-Peña, Ana Mateos-Maroto et al. 3.1. Charge Density of the Polyelectrolytes It can be expected th ...

Adsorption of Polyelectrolytes onto Charged Surfaces 45 3.2. Concentration of the Solutions The adsorption of polyelectrolytes o ...

46 Sara Llamas, Laura Fernández-Peña, Ana Mateos-Maroto et al. Adapted with permission from reference [22]. Copyright (2011) Ame ...

Adsorption of Polyelectrolytes onto Charged Surfaces 47 surface interactions. These interactions does not influence the direct e ...

48 Sara Llamas, Laura Fernández-Peña, Ana Mateos-Maroto et al. segments protruding to the liquid and with a close packing due to ...

Adsorption of Polyelectrolytes onto Charged Surfaces 49 contributions can become in many case the main driving force of the adso ...

50 Sara Llamas, Laura Fernández-Peña, Ana Mateos-Maroto et al. view, the study of the adsorption kinetics is not trivial, especi ...