Current Research on Polyelectrolyte Nanostructures: From Molecular Interactions to Biomedical Applications

Polyelectrolytes have been at the center of interdisciplinary research for many decades. In field polymer science and soft matter, they provided dimensions electrostatic interactions, which opens a vast variety opportunities new physical properties applications. biological polyelectrolytes are present in forms, from extracellular polysaccharides to complex DNA molecules proteins. This review discusses recent on covering fundamental level their conformations nanostructures, molecular interactions with materials that close relevance bioapplications applications biomedical field. approach is motivated by fact polyelectrolyte constantly active all aforementioned levels continually affects critical scientific areas.