High-resolution Imaging of Starch Granule Structure using Atomic Force Microscopy

Starch/Staerke

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 150-153

  Ohtani, Toshio ^a   Yoshino, Tomoyuki ^b   Hagiwara, Shouji ^a   Maekawa, Takaaki ^b  

^a NATIONAL FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atomic Force Microscopy; Cluster; Starch; Structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000704555     PISSN: 00389056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1521-379X(200006)52:5<150::AID-STAR150>3.0.CO;2-F     Document Type: Article

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