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The potential of cold neutron scattering for the study of aqueous gels is discussed. Advanced elastic and inelastic neutron techniques can provide much new information on the structure and dynamics of polysaccharide gels in parameter domains not accessible by other methods. Elastic coherent scattering (0.02 < Q0 < 3.6 Å-1) from agarose gels at different concentration and H2O/D2O contrast shows that it is possible to get information on the dimensions of the interstitial water volumes contained by the three-dimensional network structure. Inelastic and quasielastic measurements from a hydrogenous gel using a time-focusing spectrometer indicate that one can quantify the extent of dynamic water structuring at wavenumbers below 100 cm-1.
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Cavatorta, F., Deriu, A., Middendorf, H.D. (1986). Neutron Scattering from Agarose Gels. In: Clementi, E., Chin, S. (eds) Structure and Dynamics of Nucleic Acids, Proteins, and Membranes. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5308-9_6
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