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Saphwan Al-Assaf

Explained in the following papers,

Yapeng Fang, Saphwan Al-Assaf, Glyn O. Phillips,Katsuyoshi Nishinari, Takahiro Funami, and Peter A. Williams (2007). Multiple Steps and Critical Behaviors of the Binding of Calcium to Alginate. J. Phys. Chem. B, 111, 2456-2462.

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Yapeng Fang, Saphwan Al-Assaf, Glyn O. Phillips, Katsuyoshi Nishinari, Takahiro Funami, and Peter A. Williams. "Binding Behavior of Calcium to Polyuronates. Part II. Comparison of Pectin with Alginate". Carbohydrate Polymers, 2008, 72, 334-341.

Darwin Reyes

hi sir. thank you for answering my question. can I have a copy of that scientific papers? thank you very much!

Hamed Daemi

Read below paper.

Li, L., Fang, Y., Vreeker, R. and Appelqvist, I. ‘‘Reexamining the egg-box model in calcium–alginate gelswith X-ray diffraction’’, Biomacromolecules, 8, pp. 464–468 (2007).