Figure 5.

Calculation of the Debye length, effective width, and persistence length as a function of ionic strength using two different models for the persistence length. The persistence length l_p;OSF is computed from the Odijk-Skolnick-Fixman theory in Eq. (12) and alternate value, l_p,D, is computed using the theory from Dobrynin⁹⁰ in Eq. (13). The effective width, w, is obtained from Stigter’s theory.^89,91 Adapted with permission from Ref.⁹² Copyright 2008 American Chemical Society.