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Assessment of metal-extracellular polymeric substances interactions by asymmetrical flow field-flow fractionation coupled to inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

Extracellular polymeric substances (EPSs) excreted by the bacterium Sinorhizobium meliloti and associated Ca, Cd and Pb were characterised by asymmetrical flow field-flow fractionation coupled with UV spectrophotometry and inductively coupled plasma mass s ...

2010

Control of Polymerization Processes

Dominique Bonvin, Grégory François

With an annual worldwide production well in excess of 100 million metric tons, synthetic polymers constitute a significant part of the modern chemical process industry. Polymer reactors - operated in continuous, batch, or semibatch mode - are therefore imp ...

CRC Press2010

Arrested fluid-fluid phase separation in depletion systems: Implications of the characteristic length on gel formation and rheology

Suliana Manley

We investigate the structural, dynamical, and rheological properties of colloid-polymer mixtures in a volume fraction range of φ=0.15-0.35. Our systems are density-matched, residual charges are screened, and the polymer-colloid size ratio is ∼0.37. For the ...

American Institute of Physics2010

Flocculation by Cationic Polyelectrolytes: Relating Efficiency with Polyelectrolyte Characteristics

Jutta Christine Wandrey, David Hunkeler

A series of acrylamide/dimethylaminoethylacrylate methyl chloride copolymers (AM-co-DMAEA) was evaluated as flocculants for model Precipitated Calcium Carbonate (FCC) in distilled water. These cationic polyelectrolytes (PEL) differed by their AM/DMAEA rati ...

Wiley-Blackwell2010

Development of a hyphenated analytical methodology for the fractionation and characterization of environmental colloids

Enrica Alasonati

Natural colloids are defined as macromolecules and nanoparticles with sizes ranging between 1 nm and 1 µm. Colloidal pool is complex "ill-defined" mixture of humic substances, exopolymeric substances (EPS), inorganic oxides, clays, etc. Aquatic colloids ha ...

EPFL2009

Free-radical dispersion polymerization of methyl methacrylate in supercritical carbon dioxide: a parametric analysis with reaction calorimetry

Thierry Meyer, Sophie Fortini, Charalampos Mantelis, Raphaël Barbey

In this study, the application of reaction calorimetry, an efficient tool to obtain kinetic and safety data, is presented on the free radical dispersion polymn. of MMA in scCO2. The effect of three major parameters with respect to the reaction evolution ar ...

2007

About the influence of friction and polydispersity on the jamming behavior of bead assemblies

Thomas Liebling, Lionel Pournin, Marco Ramaioli

We study the jamming of bead assemblies placed in a cylindrical container whose bottom is pierced with a circular hole. Their jamming behavior is quantified here by the mean critical diameter, that is the diameter of the hole for which the jamming probabil ...

EDP Sciences, Springer2007

Superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticle coupled tissue soldering

Heinrich Hofmann, Alke Fink, Benedikt Steitz

The invention relates to superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles for use in sutureless thermal mediated tissue fusion. The nanoparticles are dispersed in a biocompatible solder material and heated by application of an alternating electromagnetic field. ...

2007

Polyelectrolyte complex formation at defined interfaces and structure formation in solution studied by analytical ultracentrifugation

Laurent Bourdillon

The interactions and structural formation of polyelectrolytes in solution and environmental stimuli-responsive water-soluble polymers are subjects of intense academic research, development, and application. An increasing number of novel materials are being ...

EPFL2006

Spontaneous condensation in DNA-polystyrene-b-poly(L-lysine) polyelectrolyte block copolymer mixtures

Harm-Anton Klok

We investigated the condensation of calf thymus DNA by amphiphilic polystyrenem-b-poly(l-lysine)n block copolymers ( PS m -b- PLys n , m, n = degree of polymerization), using small-angle X-ray scattering, polarized optical microscopy and laser scanning con ...

2006

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