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Ionogel innovation could power safe, enduring energy storage

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed an innovative energy storage system ...
Nature

Electrochemical mechanism of ion current rectification of polyelectrolyte gel diodes

Polyelectrolyte gel diodes that are double layers of two oppositely charged polyelectrolyte gels, sandwiched by two symmetric electrodes, are emergent ionic devices. These diodes are designed to ...
Nature

Polyelectrolyte multilayers-modified membrane filter for rapid immunoassay: protein condensation by centrifugal permeation

We demonstrated that positive polyelectrolyte multilayers (PEMs) have great potential for conventional enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) systems because of the induction protein enrichment on ...
C&EN

Designing Polyelectrolyte Coatings: Coacervates, Assemblies, and Complex Materials

Understanding the fundamentals of designing polyelectrolyte coatings, which can be seen as a bio-inspired approach due to chemical sequences that are analogous to proteins at a molecular level, ...
AZOM

Polyelectrolytes and Measuring their Zeta Potential

The zeta potential of polyethylenimine (PEI) is measured as a function of polymer concentration with the SZ-100 Nanoparticle Analyzer. There is a negative relationship between Zeta potential and ...