Composition and molar mass characterisation of bacterial extracellular polymeric substances by using chemical, spectroscopic and fractionation techniques

Environmental Chemistry

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 155-162

  Alasonati, Enrica ^a,c   Slaveykova, Vera I ^a,b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c Laboratoire National de Métrologies et d'Essais   (France)

Author keywords

asymmetrical flow field flow fractionation; bacterium; extracellular polymeric substances; laser light scattering; size and molar mass distributions

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; FLOW FIELD; FRACTIONATION; HETEROGENEITY; LASER; LIGHT SCATTERING; POLYMER; POLYSACCHARIDE; PROTEIN; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SPECTROSCOPY; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; TRACKING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 79955593611     PISSN: 14482517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/EN10119     Document Type: Article

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