Fig. 1. Schematic of a polyelectrolyte brush immersed in a nanoparticle solution

Fig. 2. Dependence of brush thickness on the ratio of the concentrations of counterions dissociated from the grafted chains and that dissociated from the nanoparticles. The indicated is the quantity of the charge beard by the nanoparticle

Fig. 3. The scaling-type diagram of a polyelectrolyte brush loaded with nanoparticles