In our previous work, the effect of use of a water soluble CDI/NHS system as nontoxic cross-linking agent on fabrication of gelatin nanoparticles was investigated. In this research, the effect of variation in some synthetic parameters of gelatin nanoparticles cross-linked by CDI/NHS system such as type of gelatin and formulation of cross- linking agent on their size and distribution was examine...

N-Heterocyclic carbene (NHC)-mediated ring-opening polymerization (ROP) of N-substituted N-carboxylanhydride ((N)R-NCA) yields cyclic poly(alpha-peptoid)s with controlled molecular weights (M(n) = 3-30 kg mol(-1)) and narrow molecular weight distributions (PDI = 1.04-1.12). The reactions exhibit characteristics of a living polymerization with minimal chain transfer. This enables the facile synt...

With advances in anisotropic particle synthesis, particle shape is now a feasible parameter for tuning suspension properties. However, there is a need to determine how these newly synthesized particles affect suspension properties and a need to solve the inverse problem of inferring the particle shape from property measurements. Either way, accurate suspension property predictions are required....

The physical properties of bovine prothrombin preparations have been described in this journal (1). Although methods for obtaining bovine thrombin are now also available (a), the physical properties, including the molecular weight, have not been described. Here we report values for the sedimentation coefficient, diffusion coefficient, intrinsic viscosity, frictional ratio, molecular weight, and...

The chemical modifications of poly (vinyl chloride) with aliphatic and aromatic alcohols compounds have been investigated at room temperature and atmospheric pressure, catalysed by a new green basic catalyst, the Maghnite-K. The presence of ether groups in the products is proven by infra red spectroscopy (IR) as well as by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H NMR), and characterized by i...

We have examined the structure formations in symmetric blend films of polystyrene and poly(methyl methacrylate) during phase separation and coalescence in the melt. We qualitatively verify the principle of time–temperature superposition by observing morphology development in which characteristic structures develop independently of annealing temperature and initial morphology. Domain structures ...

The physicochemical properties of bovine prothrombin and of bovine thrombin were previously described in this journal (1, 2). A derivative of bovine prothrombin, autoprothrombin II, has now been obtained in sufficient quality and quantity for study. In this report we describe some of the physicochemical properties of our product, including sedimentation coefficient, diffusion coefficient, intri...

In a previous publication, it was reported that solution of the hypophyseal growth hormone in acetate buffers results in an increment of its intrinsic viscosity with an accompanying increase of molecular weight (1). Later, Smith et al. (2) confirmed these observations in ultracentrifugal studies. The purpose of this present investigation has been to study the sedimentation behavior of the hormo...