Seawater at the nanoscale: Marine gel imaged by atomic force microscopy

Journal of Molecular Recognition

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 397-405

  Radić, Tea Mišić ^a   Svetličić, Vesna ^a   Žutić, Vera ^a   Boulgaropoulos, Beate ^b  

^a RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

^b ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

atomic force microscopy; differential scanning calorimetry; marine biopolymers self assembly; marine gel network; northern Adriatic Sea; phytoplankton bloom experiment; polysaccharide fibrils; sol gel phase transition

Indexed keywords

BIOPOLYMER; SEA WATER;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMISTRY; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; GEL; METHODOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON; REVIEW;

BIOPOLYMERS; CALORIMETRY, DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING; GELS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEAWATER;

ALGAE;

EID: 79955077571     PISSN: 09523499     EISSN: 10991352     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmr.1072     Document Type: Review

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