双节的
化学
热力学
反离子
相图
聚电解质
相(物质)
离子
物理
聚合物
有机化学
作者
Pengfei Zhang,Nayef M. Alsaifi,Jianzhong Wu,Zhen‐Gang Wang
出处
期刊:Macromolecules
[American Chemical Society]
日期:2016-12-12
卷期号:49 (24): 9720-9730
被引量:82
标识
DOI:10.1021/acs.macromol.6b02160
摘要
We study the phase behavior of polyelectrolyte (PE) solutions with salt using a simple liquid-state (LS) theory. This LS theory accounts for hard-core excluded volume repulsion by the Boublik–Mansoori–Carnahan–Starling–Leland equation of state, electrostatic correlation by the mean-spherical approximation, and chain connectivity by the first-order thermodynamic perturbation theory. We predict a closed-loop binodal curve in the PE concentration-salt concentration phase diagram when the Bjerrum length is smaller than the critical Bjerrum length in salt-free PE solution. The phase-separated region shrinks with decreasing Bjerrum length, and disappears below a critical Bjerrum length. These results are qualitatively consistent with experiments, but cannot be captured by the Voorn–Overbeek theory. On the basis of the closed-loop binodal curve and the lever rule, we predict three scenarios of salting-out and salting-in phenomena with addition of monovalent salt into an initially salt-free PE solution. The Galvani potential—the electric potential difference between the coexisting phases—is found to depend nonmonotonically on the overall salt concentration in some PE concentration range, which is related to the partition of the co-ions in the coexisting phases. Free energy analysis suggests that phase separation is driven by a gain in the electrostatic energy, at the expense of a large translational entropy penalty, due to significant counterion accumulation in the PE-rich phase.
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