Universal conductivity dependence of pure water polyelectrolyte\n solutions

2020/03/23 by Danijel Grgičin, Danijel~Grgičin, Damir Vurnek +1
Chemical Engineering · Chemistry · Materials Science · #Chemical and Physical Properties in Aqueous Solutions #Electrostatics and Colloid Interactions #FOS: Physical sciences #Material Dynamics and Properties #Polymer Surface Interaction Studies #Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft) #Thermodynamic properties of mixtures

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2003.10569

openalex publication_date 2020/03/23 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

In order to understand how live matter functions one needs to understand the\ninteraction between polyelectrolytes. We discover a general dependence of\npolyelectrolyte conductivity valid in at least nine decades of polyelectrolyte\nconcentration spanning dilute and semidilute pure water solutions. Furthermore,\nwe showed that current state of the art theories can not explain\npolyelectrolyte conductivity and suggest the path in transport theories which\nneeds to be taken in order to explain polyelectrolyte conductivity.\n

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