IPEC Solver

Developer's DescriptionBy Soft Matter and Biophysics teamCalculate the stability of core-shell polyelectrolyte complexes of co-polymers.IPEC solver is a windows program designed to analyze the stability of core-shell polyelectrolyte complexes formed by complexation of oppositely charged block co-polymers. The two-dimensional size distribution (number of anions and cations) of the complexes is calculated based on scaling model of block co-polymer aggregation and Poisson-Boltzmann theory for electrostatic interactions (VA Baulin, E. Trizac, Soft Matter, 8(25), 6755-6766 (2012)). Salt effects, charge distribution and distributions of small ions around the complexes are provided.