Poly(ethylene oxide) Is Positively Charged in Aqueous Solutions
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Results and Discussion
3. Conclusions
4. Materials and Methods
4.1. Materials
4.2. Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy (FCS)
4.3. Photon-Counting Histogram (PCH)
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Zhou, C.; Ji, C.; Nie, Y.; Yang, J.; Zhao, J. Poly(ethylene oxide) Is Positively Charged in Aqueous Solutions. Gels 2022, 8, 213. https://doi.org/10.3390/gels8040213
Zhou C, Ji C, Nie Y, Yang J, Zhao J. Poly(ethylene oxide) Is Positively Charged in Aqueous Solutions. Gels. 2022; 8(4):213. https://doi.org/10.3390/gels8040213
Chicago/Turabian StyleZhou, Chao, Chunda Ji, Yuchen Nie, Jingfa Yang, and Jiang Zhao. 2022. "Poly(ethylene oxide) Is Positively Charged in Aqueous Solutions" Gels 8, no. 4: 213. https://doi.org/10.3390/gels8040213