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JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
Volume 275, Issue 1, Pages 97-106Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2004.02.024
Keywords
polyelectrolyte; brush; colloid; interaction; electrosteric; electrostatic; modeling; theory; Donnan; electroneutrality
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Semi-analytical scaling theory is used to describe quenched and annealed (weakly charged, ionizable, charge-regulating) polyelectrolyte brushes in electrolyte solutions of arbitrary salt concentration. An Alexander-De Gennes box model with homogeneous distribution of polymer segments and the free ends located at the edge of the brush is assumed, as is local electroneutrality in the brush. For annealed polyelectrolyte and in the low-salt regime, the theory predicts that for sufficiently dense brushes, the salt concentration has a small influence on brush height, while the brush expands with increasing grafting density, in agreement with experiment. Expressions are presented for the interaction free energy of compressed ionizable and quenched polyelectrolyte brushes (proportional to the force between particles or curved surfaces). In all cases, the required prefactors are explicitly stated. The theory is compared directly with published experiments on the influence of salt concentration, pH, and grafting density on the thickness and interaction force of polystyrene sulfonate (quenched) and poly(meth)acrylic acid (annealed) brushes. In general, trends are well reproduced but significant deviations remain. (C) 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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