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POLYMER JOURNAL
Volume 38, Issue 1, Pages 57-63Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1295/polymj.38.57
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polyelectrolyte; poly(2-acrylamido-2-methylpropanesulfonate); wormlike chain; chain stiffness; electrostatic persistence length; excluded-volume effect
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Fourteen samples of sodium poly(2-acrylamido-2-methylpropzanesulfonate) ranging in weight-average molecular weight from 1.7 x 10(3) to 1.4 x 10(6) have been studied by static light scattering (or sedimentation equilibrium) and viscometry to characterize the polyelectrolyte in 0.05 and 0.5 M aqueous NaCl at 25 degrees C. The measured intrinsic viscosities (except for the two lowest molecular weights) and radii of gyration in the respective solvents are consistently described by combinations of the theories for unperturbed wormlike chains and excluded-volume effects (in the quasi-two-parameter scheme) with the parameter sets: q (the total persistence length) = 1.5 nm, M-L (the linear mass density) = 900 nm(-1), d (the chain diameter) 1.6 nm, and B (the excluded-volume strength) = 3 nm in 0.5 M aqueous NaCl and q = 3.0 nm, M-L = 900 nm(-1), d = 1.7 nm, and B = 6.2 nm in 0.05 M aqueous NaCl. It is shown that the end effect on the electrostatic persistence length hardly affects the estimation of q in the aqueous salts.
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