Phase behaviors of agarose gel

We present evidence for the existence of phase separation in the gel state of agarose having the mixture of water and methanol as the gel solvent. Firstly, the sol-gel transition line and the cloud point line are determined independently as a function of the concentration of agarose as well as the c...

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Main Authors: Takaharu Morita, Takayuki Narita, Sada-atsu Mukai, Miho Yanagisawa, Masayuki Tokita
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIP Publishing LLC 2013-04-01
Series:AIP Advances
Online Access:http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1063/1.4802968