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Mobility of microparticles in protein gel

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The hematite Fe2O3 submicron particles, 90 and 170 nm in diameter, exhibit bounded diffusion in water voids formed by gelatin networks in gel. Such particles occupy two different types of local states, distinguished by the microviscosity.

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  1. Institute of Physics, Cracow University of Technology, ul. Podchora̧żych 1, 30-083, Kraków, Poland

    Piotr Fornal

  2. Marian Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, ul. Reymonta 4, 30-059, Kraków, Poland

    Jan Stanek & Alicja Wilk

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Fornal, P., Stanek, J. & Wilk, A. Mobility of microparticles in protein gel. Hyperfine Interact 185, 81–86 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10751-008-9815-5

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