| Issue |
EPL
Volume 82, Number 2, April 2008
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|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 28009 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Interdisciplinary Physics and Related Areas of Science and Technology | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/82/28009 | |
| Published online | 11 April 2008 | |
Conformational transitions of conjugated annealed polyelectrolytes
Institut Charles Sadron, ULP-CNRS, UPR22 - 23 Rue du Loess, BP 84047, F-67034 Strasbourg cedex 2, France, EU
Received:
21
December
2007
Accepted:
2
March
2008
We study the collapse of hydrophobic annealed polyelectrolytes with a conjugated polythiophene backbone as a function of pH. The evolution of UV-visible absorption spectra suggests the existence of two conformational transitions: extended 
collapsed densely collapsed, and we measure the fraction of monomers in the three states as a function of neutralization degree. The first transition displays the qualitative features of the first-order transition predicted for hydrophobic annealed polyelectrolytes. The second transition is tentatively associated with the increase of H-bonding in the collapsed chains at low pH.
PACS: 82.35.Rs – Polyelectrolytes / 78.40.-q – Absorption and reflection spectra: visible and ultraviolet / 05.70.Fh – Phase transitions: general studies
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