Colorimetric determination of polyamidoamine dendrimers and their derivates using a simple and rapid ninhydrin assay

Analytical Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 444-455

  Xu, Zhenhua ^a   Xu, Tongwen ^b   Cheng, Yiyun ^a,b   Ma, Minglu ^a   Xu, Peng ^a   Qu, Haiou ^a   Wen, Longping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Dendrimer; Ninhydrin assay; PAMAM; Spectrophotometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 39049149835     PISSN: 00032719     EISSN: 1532236X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00032710701484350     Document Type: Article

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