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Published on: July 14, 2015
Adsorption of charged macromolecules on oppositely charged porous column materials
Vesela Malinova1, Ruth Freitag, Christine Wandrey
1Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Institute of Chemical and Biological Process Science, EPFL-ISP-LBCH, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Abstract:
A family of cationic polyelectrolytes possessing defined chain lengths, narrow chain length distributions, uniform charge density, but substituents of different hydrophilicity at the quaternary ammonium group served as model compounds for adsorption studies. These studies quantitatively revealed that polymer characteristics and electrostatic parameters affect the adsorption behavior on oppositely charged porous column materials. The presence of electrostatic exclusion, in addition to size exclusion, was proved comparing molecular, electrostatic and geometrical parameters. The dominance of electrostatic effects could be concluded evaluating the relation between molecular and electrostatic dimensions. The results provide a contribution how to estimate the threshold for electrostatic exclusion from pores as a function of dimensions and experimental conditions.
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