Structure and properties of aqueous methylcellulose gels by small-angle neutron scattering

Biomacromolecules

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 3355-3369

  Chatterjee, Tirtha ^a   Nakatani, Alan I ^b   Adden, Roland ^a   Brackhagen, Meinolf ^a   Redwine, David ^a   Shen, Hongwei ^b   Li, Yongfu ^a   Wilson, Tricia ^a   Sammler, Robert L ^a  

^a DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY   (United States)

^b Dow Chemical Company   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOB SIZE; BOND ENERGIES; CHARACTERISTIC LENGTH; COARSE-GRAINED; GEL TEMPERATURES; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LENGTH SCALE; LIMITING VALUES; METHYLCELLULOSE; NETWORK JUNCTIONS; NUMBER DENSITY; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PERSISTENCE LENGTH; SEMIDILUTE; SMALL-ANGLE NEUTRON SCATTERING; STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE-INSENSITIVE; THERMOREVERSIBLE GELATION;

GELATION; GELS; MATERIALS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION;

NEUTRON SCATTERING;

METHYLCELLULOSE;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; FLOW KINETICS; GEL; GELATION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NEUTRON SCATTERING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

GELS; METHYLCELLULOSE; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NEUTRON DIFFRACTION; RHEOLOGY; SCATTERING, SMALL ANGLE; TEMPERATURE; WATER;

EID: 84867453198     PISSN: 15257797     EISSN: 15264602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bm301123a     Document Type: Article

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