Water soluble levan polysaccharide biopolymer electrospun fibers

Carbohydrate Polymers

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 794-798

  Manandhar, Sandeep ^a   Vidhate, Shailesh ^a   D'Souza, Nandika ^a  

^a Center for Advanced Research and Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Biopolymer; Electrospinning; Fibers; Levan

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS CHARACTERS; CHAIN ENTANGLEMENTS; COLLECTOR PLATES; DISTILLED WATER; ELECTROSPUN FIBERS; FIBER DIAMETERS; FIBER FORMATION; HIGH CONCENTRATION; LEVAN; PUMP FLOW RATE; WATERSOLUBLE; X- RAY DIFFRACTION;

BIOMOLECULES; BIOPOLYMERS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FIBERS; POLYSACCHARIDES;

ELECTROSPINNING;

EID: 69749125719     PISSN: 01448617     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2009.06.023     Document Type: Article

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