Summary: Eur. Phys. J. B 5, 869­880 (1998)
THE EUROPEAN
PHYSICAL JOURNAL B
c
EDP Sciences
Springer-Verlag 1998
Random polyelectrolytes and polyampholytes in solution
I. Borukhov1,a
, D. Andelman1,b
, and H. Orland2,c
1
School of Physics and Astronomy, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences
Tel-Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv 69978, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2
Service de Physique Th´eorique, CE-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
Received: 30 June 1997 / Revised: 29 April 1998 / Accepted: 11 June 1998
Abstract. The behavior of polyelectrolytes and polyampholytes in semi-dilute solutions is investigated
theoretically. Various statistical charge distributions along the polyelectrolyte chains are considered: (i)
smeared, where the charges are uniformly distributed along the chain. (ii) Annealed, where the charges
are allowed to associate and dissociate from the chain. (iii) Permuted, where the total number of charges

Source: Andelman, David - School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University

Collections: Materials Science; Physics