Microrheology and microstructure of Fmoc-derivative hydrogels

Langmuir

Volumn 30, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 4483-4492

  Aufderhorst Roberts, Anders ^a   Frith, William J ^b   Kirkland, Mark ^b   Donald, Athene M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNILEVER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; GELATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VISCOELASTICITY;

CRITICAL RELAXATION; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MEAN SQUARE DISPLACEMENT; PERCOLATION TRANSITION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROGRAPHS; SEMI-FLEXIBLE POLYMERS; STOKES-EINSTEIN RELATION; WIDE FREQUENCY RANGE;

HYDROGELS;

HYDROGEL;

CHEMISTRY; FLOW KINETICS; HYDROGEL; VISCOSITY;

HYDROGELS; RHEOLOGY; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84899459293     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la5005819     Document Type: Article

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