Macromolecules, Vol.29, No.6, 2068-2074, 1996
Dynamics of Concentrated Weakly Charged Polyelectrolyte Solutions
The static and dynamic structure factors of weakly charged polyelectrolytes in concentrated solutions are derived in the random phase approximation. The effects of polymer stiffness, excluded volume, charge fraction, and salt concentration are obtained and compared with the small angle neutron scattering experiments on poly(acrylic acid) gels. An accurate description of the short range interactions in the unperturbed polymer chain together with consideration of a moderate excluded volume effect is required to approximate the complicated experimental behavior.
Keywords:GELS