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Controlling the Size, Shape and Stability of Supramolecular Polymers in Water
Published on: August 2, 2012
[NMR spin-echo study of the effect of hydration on the mobility and conformation of linear polyethyleneimine]
Biofizika
|January 1, 1976
Abstract:
It has been shown that mobility of protons in different groups of linear polyethylenimine (LPEI) is sensitive to the formation of H-bonds between amino groups of a polymer. Upon hydration of LPEI most of direct bonds between amino groups are substituted by the bonds via water molecules. This results in a conformational change of the polymer. Similar process may also occur in biopolymers.
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