Conformations of isolated ampholytic dendrimers in solutions

✍ Scribed by Edward G. Timoshenko; Yuri A. Kuznetsov; George E. Simonov

• Book ID: 103882608
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 207 KB
• Volume: 379
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0378-4371
• DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2006.12.055

✦ Synopsis

We study the conformations of isolated trifunctional ampholytic dendrimers in solutions. For the previously homodendrimer 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.