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Toughening Mechanism of ZTA–TiC–Fe Ceramic Materials Produced by High-Gravity Combustion Synthesis
Through coupling of high-gravity field and high temperature field of , ZrO2 toughened Al2O3 (ZTA) adding with TiC strengthened iron ductile (ZTA–TiC–Fe) composite materials were prepared by high-gravity . The c...
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Summary
This book provides a comprehensive review of the state of the art on the structure analysis of complex polysaccharides. Unlike protein and nucleic acid, the structure investigation of polysaccharides can only ...
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MALDI-TOF-MS for Polysaccharides Analysis
Mass spectroscopy has been widely applied for carbohydrate analysis in terms of molecular mass, constituent monosaccharides, linkage types, sequencing of sugar residues, branching features, types of modifying ...
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Strategies for Structural Characterization of Polysaccharides
Polysaccharide molecules are constructed by long chains of monosaccharide units bound together via glycosidic linkages. Naturally occurring polysaccharides can be simply classified into four categories accordi...
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Molecular Weight Distribution and Conformational Properties of Polysaccharides
As a fundamental characteristic, the molecular weight and molecular weight distribution of polysaccharides are important in relation to many physical properties. Average molecular weight and polydispersity ind...
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Partial Acid Hydrolysis and Molecular Degradation
Polysaccharides are generally degraded into oligosaccharides prior to their structural characterization, while the degradation methods can be classified into two big categories, non-specific degradation and co...
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1D & 2D and Solid-State NMR
NMR spectroscopy, as a powerful tool for carbohydrate structural analysis, could provide a complete picture of oligosaccharides structure and their behavior in solution. Structural features including linkage p...
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Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) for Carbohydrate Analysis
As FTIR spectrometer can simultaneously collect high-resolution data over a wide spectral range in a short time, it has been extensively used for carbohydrate analysis (Guo et al in Carbohydr Polym 86(2):831–8...
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Detailed Experimental Procedures
Weigh 10 mg polysaccharide sample, adding 1 mL 12 M sulphate acid and keep stirring at room temperature for 30 min until sample dissolved well. Dilute the solution accordingly, normally 10 times and waiting fo...
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Polysaccharide Extraction and Fractionation
Some polysaccharides can be collected directly from the ground endosperm of beans (guar gum) or husks (psyllium). Exudate gums such as gum arabic and gum ghatti can be picked up directly from the tree bark (Ka...
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Monosaccharide Composition Analysis
Monosaccharide composition analysis is critical for understanding the structure of polysaccharides, as it could provide the first clue of the structural information. For example, polysaccharides containing ara...
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Linkage Pattern Analysis
Methylation analysis, a powerful tool for primary structure characterization, has been used for decades and is still widely used nowadays (Chandra et al. in Carbohydrate Research 344(16):2188–2194, 2009; Pereira ...