Issue 41, 2016
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Soft Matter

Comment on “Formation of polyelectrolyte multilayers: ionic strengths and growth regimes” by K. Tang and A. M. Besseling, Soft Matter, 2016, 12, 1032

Eduardo Guzmán,*a   Francisco Ortegaa  and  Ramón G. Rubioab  

* Corresponding authors

a Departamento de Química Física I-Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040-Madrid, Spain
E-mail: eduardogs@quim.ucm.es

b Instituto Pluridisciplinar-Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040-Madrid, Spain

Abstract

Tang and Besseling recently published a study on the growth of polyelectrolyte multilayers formed by poly(diallyl-dimethylammonium chloride), PDADMAC, and the sodium salt of poly(4-styrenesulfonate), PSSNa. They described the different growth regimes appearing in the (PDADMAC + PSS)n multilayers within a scenario in which the appearance of interdiffusion of the polyelectrolyte chains within the multilayer architecture plays a central role in the transition between the different regimes. However, this account contrasts, without an apparent explanation, with previous experimental evidence reported in the literature.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C6SM00472E
Article type
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Submitted
23 Feb 2016
Accepted
28 Sep 2016
First published
28 Sep 2016

Soft Matter, 2016,12, 8460-8463

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E. Guzmán, F. Ortega and R. G. Rubio, Soft Matter, 2016, 12, 8460 DOI: 10.1039/C6SM00472E

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