Effects of single-walled carbon nanotubes on lysozyme gelation

Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces

Volumn 121, Issue , 2014, Pages 165-170

  Tardani, Franco ^a   La Mesa, Camillo ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Gelation; Gelling kinetics; Lysozyme; Percolation; Rheology

Indexed keywords

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CARBON NANOTUBES; ELASTICITY; ENZYMES; PERCOLATION (SOLID STATE); RHEOLOGY; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); SOLVENTS; GELATION;

EFFECT OF CARBONS; GELATION KINETICS; GELATION TEMPERATURE; HIGH VOLUME FRACTION; HYDROGEL COMPOSITES; PERCOLATING NETWORKS; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY; THERMAL GELATION;

GELATION; CARBON NANOTUBES;

LYSOZYME; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE; CARBON NANOTUBE; GEL; WATER;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DISPERSION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLOW KINETICS; GELATION; HYDROGEL; IONIC STRENGTH; LIGHT SCATTERING; NONHUMAN; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMODYNAMICS; VISCOSITY; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CHICKEN; GEL; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; ULTRASTRUCTURE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL VARIABLE; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; GELS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LIGHT; MURAMIDASE; NANOTUBES, CARBON; RHEOLOGY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; VISCOSITY; WATER;

EID: 84903485034     PISSN: 09277765     EISSN: 18734367     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfb.2014.06.004     Document Type: Article

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