“…12 Despite its broad use in industry, Na CMC behavior in solution is still relatively poorly understood and is the subject of research from both fundamental 1,[13][14][15][16] and applied perspectives. 10,[17][18][19][20] The polyelectrolyte nature of Na CMC is, in itself, a reason for this poor understanding since many questions remain about the behavior of charged polymers in solution, 16,21 and especially in saltfree solutions; one example concerns the origin of the 'slow' relaxation mode typically observed using Light Scattering (LS), whose presence is not predicted by standard theory. [22][23][24] Given the biological origin of Na CMC, it typically has a high polydispersity of the chain length distribution 1,5,25,26 (common values of Mw/Mn are around 1.7-4.5 1,5,13,25,26 ).…”