The advent of genome editing has transformed the therapeutic landscape for several
debilitating diseases, and the clinical outlook for gene therapeutics has never been more …

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

The hypothesis that prebiotic molecules were transformed into polymers that evolved into
proliferating molecular assemblages and eventually a primitive cell was first proposed about …

Hydrophilic polymers are a major class of polymers in polymer science. They are found in
broad range of applications from superabsorbers to drug-delivery. In recent years, a plethora …

Polymers are uniquely suited for drug delivery and biomaterial applications due to tunable
structural parameters such as length, composition, architecture, and valency. To facilitate …

The role of polyelectrolyte–solvent interactions, among other non-Coulomb interactions, in
dictating the thermodynamics and kinetics of polyelectrolyte complexation is prominent yet …

Polyelectrolyte complex micelles (PCMs) are a unique class of self-assembled nanoparticles
that form with a core of associated polycations and polyanions, microphase-separated from …

Polyelectrolyte complex micelles are hydrophilic nanoparticles that self-assemble in
aqueous environments due to associative microphase separation between oppositely …

The co-assembly of ionic-neutral block copolymers with oppositely charged species
produces nanometric colloidal complexes, known, among other names, as complex …

Strongly interacting polyelectrolyte complexes (PECs) are known to form solid precipitates
that can transform into liquid droplets upon the addition of salt to break intrinsic ionic …