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    Area of Science:

    • Materials Science
    • Polymer Chemistry
    • Biophysics

    Background:

    • Polyelectrolyte brushes are crucial stimuli-responsive materials with diverse applications.
    • Characterizing small brushes poses challenges in 3D structure and time-dependent behavior analysis.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To investigate the behavior of newly developed extra-large hyaluronan brushes (∼15 μm).
    • To explore their response to varying ionic strength and solvent quality.

    Main Methods:

    • Enzyme-mediated growth process for creating extra-large hyaluronan brushes.
    • Confocal microscopy to observe brush behavior under different conditions.

    Main Results:

    • The brushes demonstrated osmotic and salted brush regimes in response to increasing ionic strength.
    • A significant 96% collapse was observed in poor solvent conditions.
    • Rapid collapse in poor solvent contrasted with slow re-expansion in good solvent.

    Conclusions:

    • Extra-large hyaluronan brushes exhibit behavior analogous to smaller polyelectrolyte brushes.
    • These larger systems can serve as effective models for studying complex phenomena.
    • Confocal microscopy is suitable for analyzing these model systems.