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

Dynamic materials, which include ionic polymeric materials, contain specific bonds or
interactions that can reversibly break and reform under certain stimuli or conditions. Among …

Polyelectrolyte complexes (PECs) offer enormous material tunability and desirable
functionalities, and consequently have found broad utility in biomedical and material …

Covalent polymers are versatile macromolecules that have found widespread use in society.
Contemporary methods of polymerization have made it possible to construct sequence …

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 …

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 …

Self-assembly between oppositely charged polyelectrolytes conjugated to neutral polymeric
blocks form polyelectrolyte complex (PEC) micelles. These nanostructures have gained …

Phase separation can be driven by the association of oppositely charged polyelectrolytes in
solution, a process known as complex coacervation. This can manifest as macrophase …

Polyelectrolyte complex micelles (PCMs, core-shell nanoparticles formed by complexation of
a polyelectrolyte with a polyelectrolyte-hydrophilic neutral block copolymer) offer a solution …

Strongly interacting polyelectrolyte complexes (PECs) are a versatile class of materials
whose physical states can be driven from solids into liquids and ultimately into homogenous …