Dielectric Analysis of Sol-Gel Transition of κ-Carrageenan with Scaling Concept

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 3687-3693

  Ikeda, Shinya ^a,b   Kumagai, Hitoshi ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coil helix transition; Dielectric relaxation; Scaling law; Sol gel transition; carrageenan

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001608778     PISSN: 00218561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jf980170j     Document Type: Article

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