摘要: This review should demonstrate that polyelectrolyte solutions are currently advancing to a fascinating topic in polymer science. The increasing effort analytical theory, simulations and experiments is about result deeper, fundamental understanding of the interacting macroions conformational properties flexible polyions. As these “simple” problems have still not been completely solved, new challenges already emerged, such as effect polyion chain architecture (polyelectrolyte stars, combs, rings, μ-gels), bivalent or multivalent metal ions bound (intramolecular cross-linking, coil collapse), complex field surfactant-polyion polyanion-polycation complexes. In comparison with growing technical importance ionic systems, academic research this area has hardly started yet.