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Thermosensitive coatings are fabricated by spin-coating of microgels consisting of the cross-linked copolymer poly(N-isopropyl acrylamide-co-acrylic acid) (P(NIPAM-co-AA)) on silicon wafers. The microgels were synthesized with two different cross-linker molar ratios and the thin films were prepared at pH 2. At this pH the particles are negatively charged only due to the starter used for the polymerization...
The paper gives an overview on interactions between two opposing interfaces in liquids. The interfaces are either solid (two silica surfaces) or fluid (in foam films or in membrane stacks). The liquids are either simple ones (water or salty water) or contain polyelectrolytes. In the latter case, the confinement leads to a structuring of the polyelectrolytes which leads to oscillatory forces in addition...
Charged surfaces and ion–water interactions at an interface play a decisive role in many physico-chemical and biological processes. The classical treatment of ions at charged interfaces is the Poisson–Boltzmann (PB) theory. Despite severe simplifying assumptions it describes surprisingly well univalent ions not too close to the interface for low electrolyte concentrations in the mmol regime. However,...
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