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Rheological Properties of Protein Hydrogels

Certain hydrogel forming de novo proteins that utilize different crosslinking
methods are studied experimentally on a rheometer. The stress reaxation
modulus of CRC, a telechelic, triblock protein, is shown to be that of
a stretched exponential function with a value of β ≅ 0.5. The insertion of
an integrin binding domain and changes in pH within the range 6.5–8.5 are
shown not to significantly affect the resulting rheological behavior. A selective
chemical crosslinker is used on CRC hydrogel systems and is shown to
change the rheological behavior of the system to that of a combination of a
chemically and physically crosslinked system. Chemically crosslinked hydrogels
composed of W6, a wheat gluten-based protein, demonstrate a storage
modulus weakly dependent on the angular frequency that is much greater
than the loss modulus, with a modulus concentration dependence of c^9/4.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:uottawa.ca/oai:ruor.uottawa.ca:10393/20565
Date January 2012
CreatorsScott, Shane
ContributorsHarden, James
PublisherUniversité d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Source SetsUniversité d’Ottawa
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis

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