Osmotic properties of poly(ethylene glycols): Quantitative features of brush and bulk scaling laws

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 350-355

  Hansen, Per Lyngs ^a,b   Cohen, Joel A ^a,c,e   Podgornik, Rudi ^a,d   Parsegian, V Adrian ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPOSOME; MACROGOL; MONOMER; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CELL SURFACE; GLYCOSYLATION; MEMBRANE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OSMOLALITY; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; OSMOTIC STRESS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037215724     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(03)74855-3     Document Type: Article

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