Sodium NMR relaxation: A versatile non-invasive tool for the monitoring of phase transitions and the estimation of effective pore sizes of supramolecular hydrogels

Progress in Colloid and Polymer Science

Volumn 140, Issue , 2013, Pages 45-51

  Raue, M ^a   Bernet, A ^b   Kuppers M ^a   Stapf, S ^c   Schmidt, H W ^b   Blumich B ^a   Mang, T ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^c ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

23Na relaxation; Amphiphile; Hydrogelator; Pore size; Porous material; Succinamic acid

Indexed keywords

EID: 85058847134     PISSN: 0340255X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-01683-2_4     Document Type: Chapter

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