Hyaluronan/surfactant complexes – Connecting mesoscopic structure to macroscopic behaviour

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The biopolyelectrolyte Hyaluronan (HA) is known since nearly 90 years. Still the fundamental principles of its complexes with surfactants are not fully understood yet. In this experiment the structural changes upon varying the nominal charge ration Z between HA and surfactant (Z=[-]/[+]) shall be investigated. This will be done for comparing the cationic TTAB (tetradecyltrimethylammonium bromide) and the zwitterionic lecithin. For TTAB for Z 1) complexes with lecithin, a phospholipid, will be studied. These complex solutions show a lowered viscosity, potentially caused by lipid layers wrapping the HA. From the comparison of these experiments a more general picture of the structural behaviour of such complexes will be derived.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5291/ILL-DATA.9-12-378
Metadata Access https://data.ill.fr/openaire/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=10.5291/ILL-DATA.9-12-378
Provenance
Creator Gradzielski, Michael; Buchold, Philipp; Schweins, Ralf
Publisher Institut Laue-Langevin
Publication Year 2015
Rights OpenAccess; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
OpenAccess true
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Resource Type Dataset
Size 241 MB
Version 1
Discipline Particles, Nuclei and Fields