Electronic Resource
Copenhagen
:
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr)
Applied crystallography online
11 (1978), S. 519-523
ISSN:
1600-5767
Source:
Crystallography Journals Online : IUCR Backfile Archive 1948-2001
Topics:
Geosciences
,
Physics
Notes:
The study of semi-dilute polyelectrolyte solutions by small-angle neutron scattering shows that the correlation function S(q) of all the chains presents a peak for a value q = qh of the scattering vector q. This is taken as evidence for some organization among the elongated polyions. This phenomenon has been observed for a fraction of polymethacrylic acid of very low molecular weight. The experiments show essentially: (1) the progressive vanishing of the peak with the addition of a neutral salt at constant polyelectrolyte concentration; (2) the variation of qh with the polyelectrolyte concentration c, qh ∝ c1/2; (3) the decrease of the peak intensity as the charge density of the chain increases. These results, which indicate the important role of the electrostatic interactions on this organization phenomenon, are discussed in terms of a lattice model and a recently proposed isotropic model.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1107/S0021889878013783
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