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Electrostatically Driven Assembly of Polyelectrolytes

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Screened electrostatic interactions are commonly employed in colloid and polymer science for stabilization in aqueous solutions to avoid macroscopic phase separation, but these are equally versatile as driving force for complexation (or microscopic phase separation) into micelles, vesicles, multilayers and other nanostructured materials. In this introductory chapter, we present an overview of the field of electrostatically driven assembly of polyelectrolytes into nanometre-sized association colloids focusing in particular on the fundamentals followed by a discussion of selected application areas.

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Voets, I.K. (2016). Electrostatically Driven Assembly of Polyelectrolytes. In: Procházka, K. (eds) Fluorescence Studies of Polymer Containing Systems. Springer Series on Fluorescence, vol 16. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26788-3_3

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