Structure Formation in Solution: Ionic Polymers and Colloidal Particles - Hardcover

Ise, Norio; Sogami, Ikuo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3540252711 ISBN 13: 9783540252719

Publisher: Springer, 2005

Synopsis

1. 1 Macroionic Systems and the Scope of the Book Inthepresentmonograph,wewilldiscussionicpolymersolutionsandcolloidal dispersions. When these substances are dissolved into a solvent, they produce ionicspecies havinglargemolecularweightsandtheir counterions. We knowa variety of naturally occurring ionic polymers and chemically synthesizedc- pounds. Examples of the former are nucleic acids and some proteins, which playanimportantroleinbiologicalsystems. Examplesofsyntheticionicpo- mers are polyacrylic acid (PAA), polystyrenesulfonic acid (PSS) and poly- lylamine (PAAm). PAAisahighpolymer,inwhichmacrylicacidmoleculesCH =CH(COOH) 2 arelinearlypolymerizedby covalent bonds. Thenumber mis calledthe degree 3 of polymerization and is usually of the order of 10 . When PAA is dissolved in a dissociating solvent like water, anionic macroions and counterions are produced. In the following scheme, the counterions are protons but they may + be metal cations such as Na : ? ? ? ? ?CH ? CH? ?CH ? CH? 2 2 + ? ? ? ? | ? | + mH ? COOH COO m m PAA PAA anion Counterions. PAAm is a cationic polymer and dissociates into PAAm cations and anionic counterions as shown below: ? ? ? ? ?CH ? CH? ?CH ? CH? 2 2 ? ? ? ? ? | +mHCl ? | +mCl + CH ?NH CH ?NH 2 2 2 3 m m PAAm PAAm cation Counterions. 2 1 Introduction + ? In the case of NaCl, it dissociates into Na and Cl , which both have low molecular weights. On the other hand, PAA anions and PAAm cations have 3 highmolecularweights. Ifmis10 ,onepolymerion(macroion)hasananalyt- 3 + icalchargenumberZ of10 ,whichisexceedinglylargerthan1forNa .

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Review

"He found a promising approach in Sogami and Ise’s treatments of ‘electrostatic interactions in macro-ionic solutions’ of spherical  macro-ions (Ise and Sogami, 2005)."

Clays and Clay Minerals, Vol. 54, No. 6, 773-775, 2006

Synopsis

This book is designed to critically review experimental findings on ionic polymers and colloidal particles and to prove a theoretical framework based on the Poisson-Boltzmann approach. Structure formation in ionic polymer solutions has attracted attention since the days of H. Staudinger and J. D. Bernal. An independent study on ionic colloidal dispersions with microscopy provided a compelling evidence of structure formation. Recent technical developments have made it possible to accumulate relevant information for both ionic polymers and colloidal particles in dilute systems. The outstanding phenomenon experimentally found is microscopic inhomogeneity in the solute distribution in macroscopically homogeneous systems.To account for the observation, the present authors have invoked the existence of the counterion-mediated attraction between similarly charged solute species, in addition to the widely accepted electrostatic repulsion.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540252711
• ISBN 13: 9783540252719
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 362