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J. Phys. II France
Volume 1, Number 5, May 1991
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| Page(s) | 521 - 526 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/jp2:1991186 | |
DOI: 10.1051/jp2:1991186
J. Phys. II France 1 (1991) 521-526
Institute of Macromolecular Compounds of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 199004, Leningrad, USSR
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J. Phys. II France 1 (1991) 521-526
Collapse of grafted polyelectrolyte layer
O. V. Borisov, T. M. Birshtein and E. B. ZhulinaInstitute of Macromolecular Compounds of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 199004, Leningrad, USSR
(Received 5 November 1990, accepted 31 January 1991)
Abstract
The theory describing chain conformation in a planar layer of grafted polyelectrolyte (polyampholyte) molecules and the conformational
transition related to the collapse of this layer caused by the decrease in solvent strenght is developed. Depending on the
values of the layer parameters (grafting and charge densities) this transition may occur as a continuous (cooperative) or
as a first order phase transition.
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