The distribution of void sizes in a reticulate gel
โ Scribed by Roger West
- Publisher
- Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
- Year
- 1987
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 506 KB
- Volume
- 26
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0006-3525
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โฆ Synopsis
The conformational properties of reticulate gels are examined in detail. The distribution of void sizes in a reticulate gel is shown to be usually indistinguishable from that in a hypothetical gel comprising a scaffolding of long, straight, randomly oriented, nonintersecting gel fibers. Agarose gel is used as the principle model throughout, but the conclusions are shown to be extendable to other species of gel.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
A theoretical void-size distribution in random packings of equal-sized spheres, defined as the distribution of the probability of finding a spherical void of a given size, is derived. In order to assess its validity, the three-dimensional distribution is used to evaluate, by an approximate procedure