@article{TEXTUAL,
      recid = {13439},
      author = {Neitzel, Angelika E. and Fang, Yan N. and Yu, Boyuan and  Rumyantsev, Artem M. and de Pablo, Juan J. and Tirrell,  Matthew V.},
      title = {Polyelectrolyte Complex Coacervation across a Broad Range  of Charge Densities},
      journal = {Macromolecules},
      address = {2021-07-06},
      number = {TEXTUAL},
      abstract = {Polyelectrolyte complex coacervates of homologous  (co)polyelectrolytes with a near-ideally random  distribution of a charged and neutral ethylene oxide  comonomer were synthesized. The unique platform provided by  these building blocks enabled an investigation of the phase  behavior across charge fractions 0.10 ≤ f ≤ 1.0.  Experimental phase diagrams for f = 0.30–1.0 were obtained  from thermogravimetric analysis of complex and supernatant  phases and contrasted with molecular dynamics simulations  and theoretical scaling laws. At intermediate to high f, a  dependence of polymer weight fraction in the salt-free  coacervate phase (w<sub>P,c</sub>) of w<sub>P,c</sub> ∼  f<sup>0.37±0.01</sup> was extracted; this trend was in good  agreement with accompanying simulation predictions. Below f  = 0.50, w<sub>P,c</sub> was found to decrease more  dramatically, qualitatively in line with theory and  simulations predicting an exponent of 2/3 at f ≤ 0.25.  Preferential salt partitioning to either coacervate or  supernatant was found to be dictated by the chemistry of  the constituent (co)polyelectrolytes.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/13439},
}