Electron-conducting redox hydrogels: design, characteristics and synthesis

Current Opinion in Chemical Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 664-672

  Heller, Adam ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CROSS LINKING; CYCLIC POTENTIOMETRY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GLUCOSE OXIDATION; HYDRATION; HYDROGEL; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR STABILITY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PH MEASUREMENT; REACTION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SUBSTITUTION REACTION; SYNTHESIS; WATER TRANSPORT;

ELECTRONS; HYDROGELS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION;

EID: 33751516325     PISSN: 13675931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2006.09.018     Document Type: Review

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