Polymer networks are complex systems consisting of molecular components. Whereas the
properties of the individual components are typically well understood by most chemists …

From the beginning of life with the information-containing polymers until the present era of a
plethora of water-based materials in health care industry and biotechnology, polyelectrolytes …

Polyelectrolyte complex coacervates represent a wide class of materials with applications
ranging from coatings and adhesives to pharmaceutical technologies. They also underpin …

The first stage of the physics of long, flexible chains was pioneered by eminent scientists
such as Debye, Kuhn, Kramers, and Flory, who formulated the basic ideas. In recent years …

Current progress in understanding the dynamics of associating polymers is reviewed, with
examples including both ionic and hydrogen bonding associations. A particular emphasis is …

Polyelectrolytes are polymers carrying either positively or negatively charged ionizable
groups. The properties of these polymers in solutions and at charged surfaces depend on …

We extend and generalize the scaling picture of de Genneset al. and Pfeuty to both
unentangled and entangled regimes of intrinsically flexible polyelectrolyte solutions. In …

Electrostatic correlations play an important role in physics, chemistry and biology. In
plasmas they result in thermodynamic instability similar to the liquid–gas phase transition of …

We consider the structureof a surface with a fairly dense array of polyelectrolytes end-grafted
to it. A simple theory for the scaling properties of the corona thickness, counterion …

The authors review recent advances in the physics of strongly interacting charged systems
functioning in water at room temperature. In these systems, many phenomena go beyond …