Physical models of diffusion for polymer solutions, gels and solids

L Masaro, XX Zhu - Progress in polymer science, 1999 - Elsevier
Diffusion in polymer solutions and gels has been studied by various techniques such as
gravimetry, membrane permeation, fluorescence and radioactive labeling. These studies …

Electrophoresis of DNA and other polyelectrolytes: Physical mechanisms

JL Viovy - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2000 - APS
The dramatic recent advances in molecular biology, which have opened a new era in
medicine and biotechnology, rely on improved techniques to study large molecules …

Sol-gel transition in simple silicates

CJ Brinker, KD Keefer, DW Schaefer… - Journal of Non-Crystalline …, 1982 - Elsevier
Silicate gels were prepared under a range of conditions in which the rate of hydrolysis was
varied from fast to slow with respect to the rate of condensation. When hydrolysis was fast …

Statics and dynamics of single DNA molecules confined in nanochannels

W Reisner, KJ Morton, R Riehn, YM Wang, Z Yu… - Physical review …, 2005 - APS
The successful design of nanofluidic devices for the manipulation of biopolymers requires
an understanding of how the predictions of soft condensed matter physics scale with device …

The dynamics of genomic-length DNA molecules in 100-nm channels

JO Tegenfeldt, C Prinz, H Cao… - Proceedings of the …, 2004 - National Acad Sciences
We show that genomic-length DNA molecules imaged in nanochannels have an extension
along the channel that scales linearly with the contour length of the polymer, in agreement …

A statistical theory of weakly charged polyelectrolytes: fluctuations, equation of state and microphase separation

VY Borue, IY Erukhimovich - Macromolecules, 1988 - ACS Publications
A microscopic statistical theory of polyelectrolyte solutions (PES) with polyions of low linear
charge density is developed in the random phase approximation (RPA). Correlation …

Diffusion of Brownian spheres in semidilute polymer solutions

RI Cukier - Macromolecules, 1984 - ACS Publications
6. Conclusions The Lauritzen-Hoffman theory11 was found to be suitable for the analysis of
isobaric high-pressure crys-tallization kineticsdata for cis-polyisoprene. The appli-cability of …

Theory of block polymer micelles: recent advances and current challenges

EB Zhulina, OV Borisov - Macromolecules, 2012 - ACS Publications
We present an overview of existing theories of block polymer micelles. We focus here on the
equilibrium structure of nanoaggregates formed by solvophobic/solvophilic diblock …

[HTML][HTML] Single polymer dynamics for molecular rheology

CM Schroeder - Journal of Rheology, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Single polymer dynamics offers a powerful approach to study molecular-level interactions
and dynamic microstructure in materials. Direct visualization of single polymer chains has …

Theory of steric stabilization of colloid dispersions by grafted polymers

EB Zhulina, OV Borisov, VA Priamitsyn - Journal of colloid and interface …, 1990 - Elsevier
The structure and stabilizing properties of layers of long polymer chains, grafted at one end
onto the surface of colloid particles, are considered. A mean-field analytical theory …