Monitoring the gelation of polyacrylamide-sodium alginate composite by fluorescence technique

Phase Transitions

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 530-541

  Evingür, Gülşen Akin ^a   Tezcan, Filiz ^b   Erim, F Bedia ^b   Pekcan, Önder ^c  

^a PIRI REIS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c KADIR HAS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

acrylamide; critical phenomena; fluorescence; sodium alginate; universality

Indexed keywords

ACRYLAMIDES; AVERAGE DEGREE; CRITICAL PHENOMENON; CRITICAL POINTS; FLUORESCENCE SPECTRA; FLUORESCENCE TECHNIQUE; FLUOROPROBE; GEL FRACTION; POLYACRYLAMIDES; PYRANINE; SHORTER WAVELENGTH; SODIUM ALGINATES; SOL-GEL PHASE TRANSITION; SOL-GEL TRANSITIONS; STEADY-STATE FLUORESCENCE TECHNIQUES; UNIVERSALITY;

AMIDES; COAGULATION; GELATION; HYDROGELS; POLYMERIZATION; SOL-GELS; SOLVENTS;

FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 84862201485     PISSN: 01411594     EISSN: 10290338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01411594.2011.629363     Document Type: Article

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