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Oriented macroporous polyacrylamide gels
R Charlionet1, N Machour-Merlet, S Leclerc
1Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Bois-Guillaume, France. roland.charlionet@univ-rouen.fr
Electrophoresis
|June 1, 1997
Abstract:
Macroporous gels with huge cavities and partition walls result from controlled microsyneresis during gelation. In this report we show that the microsyneresis process can be further controlled: it is possible to orient the partition walls of macropores by the use of an electric field throughout polymerization. Our oriented macroporous polyacrylamide gels offer a specific structure: a set of parallel channels of about 2 microm inner diameter, with polyacrylamide walls including acidic groups linked to the aggregated matter.