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Density-Functional Theories for Polyelectrolyte Systems
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Polymer density-functional theories(PDFTs)have distinct advantages in the study of polyelectrolyte(PE)systems over experiments and molecular simulations.Here we give an introductory review of some PDFTs recently developed for PE systems.We start with a general formal-ism of PDFTs and its relation to the widely used polymer self-consistent field theory(SCFT),then explain the various correlations that are neglect-ed in SCFT but can be accounted for in PDFTs,including those due to the excluded-volume interaction and chain connectivity of uncharged poly-mers,the electrostatic correlations of small ions,and the chain correlations in PEs.We also list some applications of PDFTs for PE systems,and fi-nally give some perspectives on future work.We hope that our review can attract more researchers to apply and further develop PDFTs as a promising class of theoretical and computational tools.
School of Physics,Nankai University,Tianjin 300071,China
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering,Colorado State University,1370 Campus Delivery,Fort Collins,CO 80523-1370,USA
National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaNational Natural Science Foundation of Chinadonors of The American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund
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