Scaling law and microstructure of alginate hydrogel

Carbohydrate Polymers

Volumn 135, Issue , 2016, Pages 101-109

  Liu, Sijun ^a   Li, Huijun ^a   Tang, Bijun ^b   Bi, Shuguang ^a   Li, Lin ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Alginate; Egg box model; Rheology; Scaling law; Viscoelasticity

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; GELATION; HYDROGELS; MICROSTRUCTURE; RHEOLOGY; SCALING LAWS; SOLUTIONS; VISCOELASTICITY;

ALGINATE HYDROGELS; BOX MODELS; CRITICAL GEL CONCENTRATION; CRITICAL RELAXATION; ION CONCENTRATIONS; NETWORK DENSITY; POWER LAW SCALINGS; RELATIVE DISTANCES;

ALGINATE;

EID: 84941056749     PISSN: 01448617     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2015.08.086     Document Type: Article

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