Conformations of isolated ampholytic dendrimers in solutions

Edward G. Timoshenko, Yuri A. Kuznetsov and George E. Simonov

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2007, vol. 379, issue 1, 23-31

Abstract: We study the conformations of isolated trifunctional ampholytic dendrimers in solutions. For the previously homo-dendrimer case studied in the literature, we discuss the issues of density profiles, the existence of a cavity, backfolding, bond stretching and scaling laws for the dendrimer size across the good-to-poor solvent transition. We then consider the effect of introducing monomer charges in the outermost generation opposite to those in the interior generations in an electrically neutral overall ampholytic co-dendrimer.

Keywords: Dendrimer; Polyampholyte; Conformation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2006.12.055

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