Critical exponents of kappa carrageenan in the coil-helix and helix-coil hysteresis loops

Journal of Macromolecular Science, Part B: Physics

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 812-822

  Tari, Ozlem ^a   Kara, Selim ^b   Pekcan, Önder ^c  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b TRAKYA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c KADIR HAS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Carrageenan; Critical exponent; Fluorescence; Hysteresis; Transition temperature

Indexed keywords

CARRAGEENAN; CARRAGEENANS; COIL-HELIX TRANSITION; CRITICAL EXPONENT; GEL FRACTION; HELIX-COIL; KAPPA CARRAGEENAN; PHASE TRANSITION TEMPERATURES; SCATTERED LIGHT; STEADY-STATE FLUORESCENCE TECHNIQUES; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; WATER SYSTEM;

FLUORESCENCE; GELATION; GELS; HYSTERESIS; HYSTERESIS LOOPS; SOLS; SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 70449589638     PISSN: 00222348     EISSN: 1525609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00222340902956129     Document Type: Article

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