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On the origin of the extremely different solubilities of polyethers in water

Authors :
Bernd Ensing
Ambuj Tiwari
Martijn Tros
Johannes Hunger
Sérgio R. Domingos
Cristóbal Pérez
Gertien Smits
Mischa Bonn
Daniel Bonn
Sander Woutersen
Source :
Nature Communications, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2019)
Publication Year :
2019
Publisher :
Nature Portfolio, 2019.

Abstract

Polyethers are ubiquitous in our daily lives, and display counterintuitive solubilities in water. Here the authors show, by ultrafast spectroscopies and computations, that solubility does not depend on steric factors but on the interaction of water molecules with the polymer’s charge distribution

Subjects

Subjects :
Science

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
20411723
Volume :
10
Issue :
1
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Nature Communications
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.04ed96ac21cd43faaa07c979d6cd00dd
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10783-z