Complex coacervation and metal–ligand bonding as synergistic design elements for aqueous viscoelastic materials

Fractional-order Spectra for Complex Viscoelastic Materials

Recently much of the research has been dedicated to the application of fractional calculus in rheology. In this paper fractional-order spectra are presented for the complex viscoelastic materials, which mechanical analogy are constructed by fractional elements connected in series or parallel. Fractional-order spectra connect directly to the material’s constitutive relation with fractional deriv...

Development of surfactant coacervation in aqueous solution.

Coacervation is a phenomenon in which a colloidal dispersion separates into two immiscible liquid phases: a liquid rich in colloidal phase in equilibrium with another diluted liquid phase. Surfactant coacervation here refers to coacervation whose main components are surfactants with low molecular weights. Over the past two decades, surfactants have been greatly developed and studies on coacerva...

Preparation of hydrogel microspheres by coacervation of aqueous polyphosphazene solutions.

A new method of preparing ionically cross-linked polyphosphazene hydrogel microspheres which enables effective control over microsphere size distribution has been developed. The synthesized microspheres can be used in protein delivery and, especially, as vaccine delivery vehicles. A new technique utilizes the ability of aqueous solutions of poly[di(carboxylatophenoxy)phosphazene] (PCPP) to form...

Uranium Extraction from Solid Waste as Nitrate Complex with D2EHPA, TOPO and their Synergistic Mixture

Cluster formation in polyelectrolyte-micelle complex coacervation.

The temperature-induced liquid-liquid phase transition (complex coacervation) of a polycation-anionic/nonionic mixed micelle system was examined over a range of macroion concentrations and polycation molecular weights (MW) using turbidimetry and dynamic light scattering (DLS). DLS revealed a progressive increase in complex/aggregate size with temperature up to the phase transition at T(φ), foll...