Supergiant ampholytic sugar chains with imbalanced charge ratio form saline ultra-absorbent hydrogels

Macromolecules

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 4061-4064

  Okajima, Maiko K ^a   Bamba, Takeshi ^b   Kaneso, Yasuhiro ^a   Hirata, Kazumasa ^b   Fukusaki, Eiichiro ^b   Kajiyama, Shin'Ichiro ^b   Kaneko, Tatsuo ^a  

^a JAPAN ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHAINS; COLLOIDS; COOLING WATER; DYES; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GELATION; HYDROGELS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MAGNETISM; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYSACCHARIDES; SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY; SUGAR (SUCROSE); WATER;

ATOMIC FORCE (AF); CHARGE RATIO; CYANOBACTERIUM; EXTRA-CELLULAR MATRIX (ECM); FOURIER TRANSFORM/ION CYCLOTRON RESONANCE (FT-ICR); HIGH-MOLECULAR WEIGHT (HMW); HOMOGENEOUS SOLUTIONS; HOT WATER; HYDROGEL; MURAMIC ACID; NETWORK STRUCTURES; SUGAR CHAINS; ULTRA-HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT;

SUGARS;

EID: 47249128966     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma800307w     Document Type: Article

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