From thickeners in foods to super plasticizers in concrete to water-soluble variants investigated by the medical industry for coatings on implants and controlling drug release in the ...

The Olvera de la Cruz group develops models to study the self-assembly and structure of amphiphiles, copolymers, and synthetic and biological polyelectrolytes as well as segregation and interface ...

Electrolyte solutions can also result from the dissolution of some biological (e.g., DNA, polypeptides) and synthetic polymers (e.g., polystyrene sulfonate), termed polyelectrolytes, which contain ...

Here, the authors investigate the influence of the backbone chemistry and ionic functional groups of five pairs of oppositely charged polyelectrolytes on complex coacervation. Biomolecular ...

Multilayered flexible food packaging; 3. Polyelectrolytes and polyelectrolyte multilayers for therapeutic cell biomanufacturing. Ph.D: Chemical Engineering, (2011), Drexel University - Philadelphia, ...

The general applicability of the system is demonstrated with the creation of layered hydrogels from both chitosan and alginate, which are cationic and anionic polyelectrolytes, respectively.

Eiichi “Electropolymerized Conjugated Polyelectrolytes with Tunable Work Function and Hydrophobicity as an Anode Buffer in Organic Optoelectronics” ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2012, 4, 3396. 8 ...

This full-colour undergraduate textbook, based on a two semester course, presents the fundamentals of biological physics, introducing essential modern topics that include cells, polymers, ...