image: Charged polymer brushes collapse into 3-D structures when exposed to ions with multiple charges. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 08 December 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by J. Yu at University of Chicago in Chicago, IL, and colleagues was titled, "Multivalent ions induce lateral structural inhomogeneities in polyelectrolyte brushes." view more
Credit: [Credit: Peter Allen]