Unveiling the Role of Electrostatic Forces on Attraction between Opposing Polyelectrolyte Brushes

Electrostatic interaction and molecular excluded-volume effects are responsible for a plethora of nonintuitive phenomena in soft-matter systems, including local charge inversion and attraction between similar charges. In the current work, we study the surface forces and swelling behavior of opposing...

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Veröffentlicht in:Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids. - 1992. - 40(2024), 4 vom: 30. Jan., Seite 2064-2078
1. Verfasser: Prusty, Debadutta (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Gallegos, Alejandro, Wu, Jianzhong
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2024
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids
Schlagworte:Journal Article
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520 |a Electrostatic interaction and molecular excluded-volume effects are responsible for a plethora of nonintuitive phenomena in soft-matter systems, including local charge inversion and attraction between similar charges. In the current work, we study the surface forces and swelling behavior of opposing polyelectrolyte brushes using a classical density functional theory that accounts for electrostatic and excluded-volume correlations. We observe that the detachment pressure between similarly charged brushes is sensitive to salt concentration in both the osmotic and salted regimes and can be negative in the presence of multivalent counterions. A comparison of the theoretical results with the mean-field predictions unravels the role of correlation effects in determining the surface forces and brush structure. For systems containing multivalent counterions, the detachment pressure attains negative values at an intermediate brush-brush separation, and the attractive region in the pressure vs distance plot is magnified in terms of both the depth and width of attraction with increasing counterion valency. However, the interbrush attraction vanishes when the size-induced correlations are switched off. We also investigated the role of counterion size and polymer chain length on the detachment pressure. It is found that smaller counterions are more effective in neutralizing the polymer charge than bigger counterions, leading to a reduced interbrush repulsion and, in some cases, attraction between like-charged brushes at intermediate distances. Meanwhile, varying the chain length of the grafted polymers only shifts the location of the attraction basin, with little influence on the interaction strength. The theoretical predictions show qualitative agreement with experimental observations and offer valuable insights into the interaction between similarly charged polymer brushes in the presence of multivalent ions 
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