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Force-Clamp Rheometry for Characterizing Protein-based Hydrogels
Published on: August 21, 2018
Using supramolecular hydrogels to discover the interactions between proteins and molecular nanofibers of small
Yuan Gao1, Marcus J C Long, Junfeng Shi
1Department of Chemistry, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02453, USA.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|July 18, 2012
Abstract:
Here we report the first example of the use of supramolecular hydrogels to discover the protein targets of aggregates of small molecules.
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