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Nature Materials 6, 401 - 402 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nmat1908

Polyelectrolyte gels: Ionic partners split up

Ralph H. Colby1

  1. Ralph H. Colby is in the Department of Physics, New York University, 4 Washington Place, New York, New York 10003, USA. e-mail: andy.kent@nyu.edu

Polyelectrolyte gels are currently used as superabsorbers for polar solvents, such as water. Designing them so that the polyelectrolyte chains and their counterions don't get too close to each other makes them useful for absorbing less-polar solvents, too.

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