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@ARTICLE{Kobayashi:807744,
author = {Kobayashi, Hideki and Winkler, Roland G.},
title = {{U}niversal conformational properties of polymers in ionic
nanogels},
journal = {Scientific reports},
volume = {6},
issn = {2045-2322},
address = {London},
publisher = {Nature Publishing Group},
reportid = {FZJ-2016-02162},
pages = {19836 -},
year = {2016},
abstract = {Polyelectrolyte gels are known to undergo significant
conformational changes in response to external stimuli such
as pH, temperature, or the dielectric constant.
Specifically, an increase of the degree of ionization
associated with an increasing number of counterions leads to
swelling of the network. For a macroscopically large gel,
which is electrostatically neutral in its interior, swelling
is no longer governed by electrostatic interactions, but
rather by the osmotic pressure of counterions. However, this
electrostatic neutrality is typically violated for nanogels,
because counterions are free to leave a gel particle.
Although nanogel-swelling exhibits similar features as
swelling of micro- and macrogels, another mechanism has to
be relevant. Here, we use molecular dynamics simulations and
scaling theory to unravel the structural properties of
nanogels upon changing the electrostatic interactions. We
demonstrate that the swelling of nanogels is governed by
screened electrostatic interactions without a relevant
contribution by the counterion osmotic pressure.},
cin = {IAS-2 / ICS-2},
ddc = {000},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IAS-2-20090406 / I:(DE-Juel1)ICS-2-20110106},
pnm = {551 - Functional Macromolecules and Complexes (POF3-551)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-551},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000368987800001},
pubmed = {pmid:26830457},
doi = {10.1038/srep19836},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/807744},
}