Poly(ethylene glycol)s in Semidilute Regime: Radius of Gyration in the Bulk and Partitioning into a Nanopore.
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Using two approaches, small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) from bulk solutions and nanopore conductance-fluctuation analysis, we studied structural and dynamic features of poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) water/salt solutions in the dilute and semidilute regimes. SANS measurements on PEG 3400 at the zero-average contrast yielded the single chain radius of gyration (Rg) over 1-30 wt %. We observed a small but statistically reliable decrease in Rg with increasing PEG concentration: at 30 wt % the chain contracts by a factor of 0.94. Analyzing conductance fluctuations of the α-hemolysin nanopore in the mixtures of PEG 200 with PEG 3400, we demonstrated that polymer partitioning into the nanopore is mostly due to PEG 200. Specifically, for a 1:1 wt/wt mixture the smaller polymer dominates to the extent that only about 1/25 of the nanopore volume is taken by the larger polymer. These findings advance our conceptual and quantitative understanding of nanopore polymer partitioning; they also support the main assumptions of the recent "polymers-pushing-polymers" model.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Macromolecules
دوره 50 6 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2017