Acknowledgements The author appreciates the financial support from the National Academy of
Sciences of Ukraine and Dr. N. S. Pivovarova for her help with the preparation of the manuscript.
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2. Hartig S, Greene R, Dikov M, Prokop A, Davidson J (2007) Multifunctional nanoparticulate
polyelectrolyte complexes. Pharmaceut Res 24:2353–2369. doi:10.1007/s11095-007-9459-1
3. Lankalapalli S, Kolapalli VRM (2009) Polyelectrolyte complexes: a review of their applicability in drug delivery technology. Indian J Pharm Sci 71(5):481–487. doi:10.4103/0250474X.58165
4. Muller M, Kesler B, Frohlich J, Poeschla S, Torger B (2011) Polyelectrolyte complex
nanoparticles of poly(ethyleneimine) and poly(acrylic acid): preparation and applications.
Polymer 3(2):762–778. doi:10.3390/polym3020762
5. M€ uller M, Reihs T, Ouyang W (2005) Preparation of monomodal polyelectrolyte complex
nanoparticles of pdadmac/poly(maleic acid-alt-alpha-methylstyrene) by consecutive centrifugation. Langmuir 21(1):465–469
6. Dautzenberg H (2000) Light scattering studies on polyelectrolyte complexes. Macromol
Symp 162:1–21
7. Panyam P, Labhasetwar V (2003) Biodegradable nanoparticles for drug and gene delivery to
cells and tissue. Adv Drug Deliv Rev 55:329–347
8. Derjaguin BV, Landau L (1941) Theory of the stability of strongly charged lyophobic sols
and of the adhesion of strongly charged particles in solutions of electrolytes. Acta Phys Chim
USSR 14:633–662
9. Verwey EJW, Overbeek JTG (1948) Theory of the stability of lyophobic colloids. Elsevier,
Amsterdam
10. Quemada D, Berli C (2002) Energy of interaction in colloids and its implications in rheological modeling. Adv Colloid Interface Sci 98(1):51–85. doi:10.1016/S0001-8686(01)00093-8
11. Eastman J (2010) Stability of charge-stabilised colloids. In: Colloid science: principles,
methods and applications, 2nd edn. Wiley-Blackwell
12. Derjaguin BV (1934) Untersuchungen ueber die reibung und adhaesion IV. Theorie des
anhaften kleiner teilchen. Kolloid Z 69:155–164
13. Israelachvili J (1991) Intermolecular and surface forces. Academic, New York
14. Shaw DJ (1992) Introduction to colloid and surface chemistry. Butterworth-Heinemann,
Oxford
15. Mahanty J, Ninham B (1976) Dispersion forces. Academic, New York
16. Russel WB, Saville DA, Schowalter WR (1989) Colloidal dispersions. Cambridge University
Press, New York
17. Malins A, Williams SR, Eggers J, Tanaka H, Royall CP (2011) The effect of inter-cluster
interactions on the structure of colloidal clusters. J Non-Cryst Solids 357(2):760–766.
doi:10.1016/j.jnoncrysol.2010.08.021
18. dos Santos AP, Diehl A, Levin Y (2009) Electrostatic correlations in colloidal suspensions:
density profiles and effective charges beyond the Poisson-Boltzmann theory. J Chem Phys
130:124110
19. Hogg R, Healy TW, Fuerstenau DW (1966) Mutual coagulation of colloidal dispersions.
Trans Faraday Soc 62:1638–1651. doi:10.1039/TF9666201638
20. Ohshima H, Healy TW, White LR (1982) Improvement on the Hogg-Healy-Fuerstenau
formulas for the interaction of dissimilar double layers: I. Second and third approximations
for moderate potentials. J Colloid Interface Sci 89(2):484–493. doi:10.1016/0021-9797(82)
90199-0
90
N.I. Lebovka