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Molecular dynamics simulation of discontinuous volume phase transitions in highly-charged crosslinked polyelectrolyte networks with explicit counterions in good solvent

J. Chem. Phys. 123, 174909 (2005); doi:10.1063/1.2102827

Published 3 November 2005

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De-Wei Yin, Qiliang Yan, and Juan J. de Pablo
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1691
The volumetric properties of highly-charged defect-free polyelectrolyte networks with tetrafunctional crosslinks are studied through molecular dynamics simulations in the canonical ensemble. The network backbone monomers, which are monovalent, and the counterions, which are mono-, di-, or trivalent, are modeled explicitly in the simulations, but the solvent is treated implicitly as a dielectric medium of good solvation quality. The osmotic pressure of the network-solvent system is found to depend greatly on the strength of electrostatic interactions. Discontinuous volume phase transitions are observed when the electrostatic interactions are strong, and the onset of these transitions shifts to higher solvent dielectricity as the counterion valency increases. The roles of the various virial contributions to the osmotic pressure are examined. The network elasticity entropy is found to behave nearly classically. As the network contracts and collapses with increasing strength of electrostatic interactions, the loss of counterion entropy leads to increased counterion osmotic pressure contributions via two mechanisms. The reduction in available configurational space increases the counterion translational entropy contribution to the ideal part of the osmotic pressure, and the greater number of counterion-monomer contacts formed due to counterion condensation and confinement increases the counterion excluded-volume entropy contribution to the excess part of the osmotic pressure. These observations contrast the decrease in the single ideal-gas-like counterion translational entropy contribution to the osmotic pressure predicted by the counterion condensation–charge renormalization theory. An accompanying decrease in the total electrostatic energy balances the loss of counterion excluded-volume entropy as the polyelectrolyte networks collapse in low-dielectric solvents. This interplay between the electrostatic energy and the counterion excluded-volume entropy appears to be responsible for the discontinuous volume phase transitions that are observed in polyelectrolyte networks. The structure of the polyelectrolyte network is also found to be affine in the swollen state, with constituent chains nearly fully extended, and nonaffine in the collapsed state, with the chains adopting a Gaussian conformation. ©2005 American Institute of Physics
History: Received 14 June 2005; accepted 2 September 2005; published 3 November 2005
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KEYWORDS and PACS

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PACS
  • 82.35.Rs
    Polyelectrolytes (chemistry)
  • 82.45.Wx
    Polymers and organic materials in electrochemistry
  • 61.20.Ja
    Computer simulation of liquid structure
  • 61.25.Hq
    Structure of macromolecular and polymer solutions, and polymer melts; swelling
  • YEAR: 2005

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