Abstract
PSS), in water during the drying process is explored. PSS dispersions in water can be non-stoichiometric polyelectrolyte complexes (PECs) with free polyanion (PSS) chains resulting in scrambled egg conformations. They also behave as charged colloidal particles. The behaviour of PSS dispersions as PECs and charged colloidal systems during drying is analyzed using rheology and TEM, zeta potential, conductivity, pH, dynamic light scattering (DLS) and rheo-small angle light scattering (rheo-SALS) information. The rheological behaviour is found to have significant contributions from conformational changes in the PSS PEC due to charge density fluctuations affecting the electrostatic persistence length, le. A low concentration regime with multiple shear thinning behaviour and a high concentration regime with single shear thinning behaviour were observed. The PEC behavior of PSS is further explored by charge neutralizing the dispersions with salts.
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