In recent years, ionic microgels have garnered much attention due to their unique properties,
especially their stimulus-sensitive swelling behavior. The tunable response of these soft …

In the present work, coupling between the electrostatic interaction and solvent steric
hindrance, and solvent polarity are studied by classical density functional theory with …

The softness of microgels depends on many aspects, such as particle characteristic lengths,
sample concentration, chemical composition of the sample, and elastic moduli of the …

Ionic microgel particles in a good solvent swell to an equilibrium size determined by a
balance of electrostatic and elastic forces. When crowded, ionic microgels deswell owing to …

Understanding the effective charge of colloidal particles is crucial to control the stability and
performance of a colloidal system. In particular, the electrostatic interaction potential …

This work studies the kinetics of crystallization of charged microgels suspensions of Poly-N-
Isopropylacrylamide (PNIPAM) at low ionic strength. The liquid-crystal transition is induced …

This work discusses a jellium scheme, built within the framework of the multicomponent
Ornstein–Zernike (OZ) equation, which is capable of describing the collective structure of …

We use a generalized nonlinear Poisson-Boltzmann cell model that includes excluded-
volume effects to investigate whether the effective charge (Z eff) of charged thermosensitive …

Recent experimental studies have demonstrated the huge influence that the volume phase
transition (VPT) has on the collective structure of highly charged thermo-responsive …

This work studies the kinetics of crystallization of charged microgels suspensions of Poly-N-
Isopropylacrylamide (PNIPAM) at low ionic strength. The liquid-crystal transition is induced …