Аннотация
Gelatin from cold water fish species and kappa-carrageenan are both
thermo-setting biopolymers of a poly-electrolytic character. By adjusting
parameters such as pH and ionic strength, these polymers can, in
the disordered state, associatively interact through electrostatic
interactions. In the present study, the changes taking place at the
molecular level are sought and linked to the rheological properties
in a mixed system of these two biopolymers under conditions initially
favouring associative phase separation (pH below IEP of the gelatin
and low ionic strength). More specifically, these changes were followed
as function of temperature with special emphasis on changes taking
place close to the order/disorder temperature regimes of the two
polymers. The present study concludes that a variety of complex structural
arrangements can be obtained, and that dynamic processes in the form
of structural re-arrangements are present when the single components
are forced to undergo order/disorder transitions. (C) 2003 Elsevier
Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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