THF-induced Stiffening of Polyelectrolyte/Phosphorous Dendrimer Multilayer Microcapsulesстатья
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Аннотация:Polyelectrolyte multilayer microcapsules are important for a variety of potential applications, and
represent a convenient system for studying properties of multilayer films. Recent work explored a posttreatment
of such capsules by organic solvents, by reporting a softening. Here we show, that an addition
of a very small amount of solvent (THF) to the phosphorus [G3(NH+Et2Cl-)48] dendrimer adsorption
solution results, in contrast, in a discernible stiffening of (PSS)/phosphorus dendrimer microcapsules,
although it does not affect the multilayer thickness. Our results open new possibilities to tune
mechanical properties of multilayer films.