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SUBMITTER: Mukherji D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5680348 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20171109 1
Establishing a link between macromolecular conformation and microscopic interaction is a key to understand properties of polymer solutions and for designing technologically relevant "smart" polymers. Here, polymer solvation in solvent mixtures strike as paradoxical phenomena. For example, when adding polymers to a solvent, such that all particle interactions are repulsive, polymer chains can collapse due to increased monomer-solvent repulsion. This depletion induced monomer-monomer attraction is ...[more]