Polyelectrolyte complexes (PECs) are highly tunable materials that result from the phase
separation that occurs upon mixing oppositely charged polymers. Over the years, they have …

Polyelectrolyte multilayers (PEMs) or polyelectrolyte complexes (PECs), formed by layer-by-
layer assembly or the mixing of oppositely charged polyelectrolytes (PEs) in aqueous …

Phase-separated biomolecular condensates must respond agilely to biochemical and
environmental cues in performing their wide-ranging cellular functions, but our …

Various types of specific interactions are believed to supplement the major entropic driving
forces responsible for spontaneous liquid–liquid phase separations in mixtures of oppositely …

Depending on conditions such as the mixing ratio, speed and order of addition, and ionic
strength, when solutions of oppositely charged polyelectrolytes are mixed, the stoichiometry …

Anionic polymerized ionic liquids with a fixed sulfonylimide group have emerged as
promising materials for energy storage applications, electromechanical devices, and gas …

New solid polymer electrolytes are of particular interest for next-generation high-energy
batteries since they can overcome the limited voltage window of conventional polyether …

Charge-carrying species, such as polyelectrolytes, are vital to natural and synthetic
processes that rely on their dynamic behavior. Through single-particle tracking techniques …

The spontaneous association of oppositely charged natural or synthetic polyelectrolytes in
solution has evoked a great deal of interest from chemical, physical, and biological …

Complex coacervation is an associative liquid–liquid phase separation phenomenon
resulting from the complexation of oppositely charged macroions. While it is well-known that …