Intramolecular structural change of PAMAM dendrimers in aqueous solutions revealed by small-angle neutron scattering

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1751-1756

  Porcar, Lionel ^a   Hong, Kunlun ^b   Butler, Paul D ^c   Herwig, Kenneth W ^b   Smith, Gregory S ^b   Liu, Yun ^a   Chen, Wei Ren ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT LAUE LANGEVIN   (France)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDS; DISSOLUTION; ENCAPSULATION; NEUTRON DIFFRACTION; NEUTRON SCATTERING; PROTONATION;

AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS; CONCENTRATION RANGES; CONFORMATION CHANGE; CRITICAL STEPS; DRUG ENCAPSULATION; IONIC BONDS; PAMAM DENDRIMER; POLYMER COLLOIDS; RADIAL DENSITY PROFILE; RADIUS OF GYRATION; SMALL-ANGLE NEUTRON SCATTERING; STRUCTURAL CHANGE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

DENDRIMERS;

EID: 77149132455     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp9064455     Document Type: Article

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