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Multivalent ions induce lateral structural inhomogeneities in polyelectrolyte brushes
- View ORCID ProfileJing Yu1,2,3,*,
- View ORCID ProfileNicholas E. Jackson1,2,*,
- Xin Xu4,
- View ORCID ProfileBlair K. Brettmann1,5,†,
- View ORCID ProfileMarina Ruths4,
- Juan J. de Pablo1,2 and
- Matthew Tirrell1,2
- 1Institute for Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
- 2Institute for Molecular Engineering, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL 60439, USA.
- 3School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798, Singapore.
- 4Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA 01854, USA.
- 5School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.
- ↵†Corresponding author. Email: blair.brettmann{at}mse.gatech.edu
↵* These authors contributed equally to this work.
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Science Advances 08 Dec 2017:
Vol. 3, no. 12, eaao1497
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aao1497
Vol. 3, no. 12, eaao1497
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aao1497
Jing Yu
1Institute for Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
2Institute for Molecular Engineering, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL 60439, USA.
3School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798, Singapore.
Nicholas E. Jackson
1Institute for Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
2Institute for Molecular Engineering, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL 60439, USA.
Xin Xu
4Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA 01854, USA.
Blair K. Brettmann
1Institute for Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
5School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.
Marina Ruths
4Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA 01854, USA.
Juan J. de Pablo
1Institute for Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
2Institute for Molecular Engineering, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL 60439, USA.
Matthew Tirrell
1Institute for Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
2Institute for Molecular Engineering, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL 60439, USA.
