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Polymer Brush Force Modeling and Experimentation
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open in viewerAtomic force microscope (AFM) force measurements were taken on an alginate-polymer brush in varying pH buffer solutions in order to determine the meaning of the variable s in the force model. The current understanding is that s is the root spacing of the polymers, but this experiment suggests that s is the mesh spacing. The force curves were fit in order to determine the brush parameters. It was found that all parameters increased as a function of pH.
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- E-project-043009-033800
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- 2009
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- 2009-04-30
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- Major
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- 2021-01-29
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