Search Results - "Rud, Oleg V."
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Water Desalination Using Polyelectrolyte Hydrogel: Gibbs Ensemble Modeling
Published in Gels (15-10-2022)“…Polyelectrolyte hydrogels can absorb a large amount of water across an osmotic membrane as a result of their swelling pressure. On the other hand, the…”
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Modeling the Phase Transition in Hydrophobic Weak Polyelectrolyte Gels under Compression
Published in Gels (22-03-2023)“…One of the emerging water desalination techniques relies on the compression of a polyelectrolyte gel. The pressures needed reach tens of bars, which are too…”
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Hairy Gels: A Computational Study
Published in Gels (03-12-2022)“…We present results of MD and MC simulations of the equilibrium properties of swelling gels with comb-like or bottlebrush subchains and compare them to…”
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Polyelectrolyte Hydrogels as Draw Agents for Desalination of Solutions with Multivalent Ions
Published in Macromolecules (08-03-2022)“…We model a process of seawater desalination that employs compression of a weak polyelectrolyte hydrogel as the drawing force for ion transfer. We model…”
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Dendritic Spherical Polymer Brushes: Theory and Self-Consistent Field Modeling
Published in Macromolecules (11-06-2013)“…Equilibrium structural properties of polymer brushes formed by dendrons grafted via the root segment onto spherical surfaces (dendritic spherical polymer…”
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Interaction of a Hydrophobic Weak Polyelectrolyte Star with an Apolar Surface
Published in Langmuir (14-01-2014)“…We consider star-like polymers with weak, that is, pH-dependent, hydrophobic polyelectrolyte arms. For low ionic strength conditions, a microphase-segregated…”
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Modeling of weak polyelectrolyte hydrogels under compression – Implications for water desalination
Published in Desalination (15-06-2021)“…Hydrogels immersed in salty solutions induce partitioning of small ions that can be exploited for water desalination. This partitioning also affects the H+…”
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Phase transition in hydrophobic weak polyelectrolyte gel utilized for water desalination
Published in Desalination (01-09-2021)“…By this article, we continue studying weak polyelectrolyte hydrogels and their application as a desalination agent. We modeled the desalination process as a…”
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Dendritic Spherical Polymer Brushes: Theory and Self-Consistent Field Modeling
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