Wetting behavior of polyelectrolyte complex coacervates on solid surfaces-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Wetting behavior of polyelectrolyte complex coacervates on solid surfaces

Published:2022 Issue:34 Volume:18 Page:6326-6339
ISSN:1744-683X
Container-title:Soft Matter
language:en
Short-container-title:Soft Matter

Author:

Balzer Christopher¹^ORCID,Zhang Pengfei²^ORCID,Wang Zhen-Gang¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA

2. State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, Center for Advanced Low-Dimension Materials, College of Material Science and Engineering, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, China

Abstract

Wetting transitions and contact angles for polyelectrolyte complex coacervates are explored using a mean-field theory. An applied electrostatic surface potential can dramatically improve wettability, depending on the polymer–substrate affinity.

Funder

U.S. Department of Energy

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

Condensed Matter Physics,General Chemistry

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2022/SM/D2SM00859A

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