Spontaneous assembly of marine dissolved organic matter into polymer gels

Nature

Volumn 391, Issue 6667, 1998, Pages 568-572

  Chin, Wei Chun ^a   Orellana, Mónica V ^a   Verdugo, Pedro ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; CARBON; COLLOIDS; GELS; MARINE BIOLOGY; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; POLYMERS; POROSITY; SOLUBILITY;

DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; EXOPOLYMERS; MARINE COLLOIDS; MINERALIZATION; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER;

ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

ORGANIC MATTER; SEA WATER;

DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; OCEAN CHEMISTRY; ORGANIC CARBON;

ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WATER SAMPLING; X RAY MICROANALYSIS;

EID: 0032484910     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35345     Document Type: Article

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