Thermodynamics of polyelectrolytes

SERGIO PAOLETTl was born in 1948 and received his advanced degrees at the University of Trieste in 1972. He was visitii professor at Stevens Tech, in 1984. His research field encompasses both theory and experimental thermodynamics of polyelectrolytes and polysaccharides. He is currently Associate Professor of Polymer Chemistry at the University of Trieste. 

The thermodynamics of polyelectrolyte solutions is also a strong function of ionic strength and charge density. Very large osmotic second virial coefficients are observed for highly charged macromolecules. The Flory theory of these solutions in presented in Section 10.3. 

In this section we have described die basics of die thermodynamics of polyelectrolyte gels. Note that these models contain some rough approximations. For more accurate models, we refer the reader to Chu et al. (1995), De et al. (2002), Hong... 

Mandel, M. Statistical thermodynamics of polyelectrolyte solutions. In Selegny, E. (ed.) Polyelectrolytes, pp. 39-55. D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht (1974)... 

With Alexandrowicz and Kedem, moreover, Katchalsky [6] developed the irreversible thermodynamics of polyelectrolyte transport in an electrostatic field and worked out the relationship of the transport coefficients to p. 

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