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POLYMERS
Volume 11, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/polym11010051
Keywords
polyelectrolyte; surfactant; complexes; hydrophobic; electrostatic; molecular; micelle
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- Renewable Bioproducts Institute at Georgia Tech
- Oak Ridge Associated Universities Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award
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Polyelectrolytes are an important class of polymeric materials and are increasingly used in complex industrial formulations. A core use of these materials is in mixtures with surfactants, where a combination of hydrophobic and electrostatic interactions drives unique solution behavior and structure formation. In this review, we apply a molecular level perspective to the broad literature on polyelectrolyte-surfactant complexes, discussing explicitly the hydrophobic and electrostatic interaction contributions to polyelectrolyte surfactant complexes (PESCs), as well as the interplay between the two molecular interaction types. These interactions are sensitive to a variety of solution conditions, such as pH, ionic strength, mixing procedure, charge density, etc. and these parameters can readily be used to control the concentration at which structures form as well as the type of structure in the bulk solution.
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