Does anyone have experience of using 4 arm 2kDa PEG MAL sold by creativepeg?

Karthik Ravichandran @Karthik_Ravichandran

04 April 2015 0 9K Report

I'm trying to make a gel using 4 arm 2kDa PEG MAL and 1kDa PEG dithiol (the cross linker).

I can make gels using 10 and 20 kDa PEG MAL, but not with 2kDa Peg Mal.

Is there a procedure i can follow?

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