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Structure and Dynamics of Hybrid Colloid–Polyelectrolyte Coacervates: Insights from Molecular Simulations

September 5, 2023

Boyuan Yu, Heyi Liang, Paul F. Nealey, Matthew V. Tirrell, Artem M. Rumyantsev, Juan J. de Pablo* Macromolecules 2023, 56 (18), 7256–7270

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Scattering Evidence of Positional Charge Correlations in Polyelectrolyte Complexes

July 31, 2023

Yan N. Fang#, Artem M. Rumyantsev#, Angelika E. Neitzel, Heyi Liang, William T. Heller, Paul F. Nealey, Matthew V. Tirrell*, Juan J. de Pablo* Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2023, 120 (32), e2302151120

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Isotropic-to-Nematic Transition in Salt-Free Polyelectrolyte Coacervates from Coarse-Grained Simulations

October 18, 2022

Boyuan Yu, Heyi Liang, Artem M. Rumyantsev, Juan J. de Pablo* Macromolecules 2022, 55 (21), 9627–9639

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Complex Coacervation of Statistical Polyelectrolytes: Role of Monomer Sequences and Formation of Inhomogeneous Coacervates

July 28, 2021

Boyuan Yu, Artem M. Rumyantsev, Nicholas E. Jackson, Heyi Liang, Jeffrey M. Ting, Siqi Meng, Matthew V. Tirrell, Juan J. de Pablo* Mol. Syst. Des. Eng. 2021, 6 (10), 790–804

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Charged Polymers: From Polyelectrolyte Solutions to Polyelectrolyte Complexes

July 22, 2021

Ryan Sayko, Yuan Tian, Heyi Liang, Andrey V. Dobrynin* Macromolecules 2021, 54 (15), 7183–7192

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