Polyelectrolyte gel diodes that are double layers of two oppositely charged polyelectrolyte gels, sandwiched by two symmetric electrodes, are emergent ionic devices. These diodes are designed to ...

A molecular-sized brush that looks like a shoe brush has properties with great potential for the materials industry and medicine, but polyelectrolyte brushes can be sensitive, and getting them to work ...

A new study has laid out the internal structure of polyelectrolyte complexes for the first time. For years, we've known that a special kind of molecular assembly known as a "polyelectrolyte complex" ...

We demonstrated that positive polyelectrolyte multilayers (PEMs) have great potential for conventional enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) systems because of the induction protein enrichment on ...

A team of researchers from Pukyong National University discovered a simple method for creating polyelectrolytes and adjusting their properties to increase the efficiency of solar cells. These findings ...

Previously, self-mending polymeric materials based on physical crosslinking or external stimuli – such as heat and light – have been successfully developed and employed for the mechanical recovery and ...

The zeta potential of polyethylenimine (PEI) is measured as a function of polymer concentration with the SZ-100 Nanoparticle Analyzer. There is a negative relationship between Zeta potential and ...

Understanding the fundamentals of designing polyelectrolyte coatings, which can be seen as a bio-inspired approach due to chemical sequences that are analogous to proteins at a molecular level, ...

When two solutions of oppositely charged polymers (polyelectrolytes) are mixed, phase separation occurs and leads to the formation of a polymer-rich phase and a supernatant phase. The precise ...

Taiwanese researchers have added bathocuproine (BCP) molecules to three different kinds of solvents used in perovskite cells and have ascertained how this combination increases the carrier mobility ...

In addition to the design and development of new nanoporous polymer materials based on LC starting materials, our research group has recently been involved in the design and synthesis of new type of ...

A brush that's like a shoe brush on a micron scale can have great potential uses for industry and medicine -- but only if it works right.