Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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979081 | Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications | 2007 | 9 Pages |
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.
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Authors
Edward G. Timoshenko, Yuri A. Kuznetsov, George E. Simonov,