What properties you monitor when you make a gel out of polyacrylamides? (like viscosity/ water content etc?)?

Murthy V. S. N. Maddipatla @Murthy_Maddipatla

08 August 2017 0 8K Report

When making gels from polyacrylamide, what kind of properties of the gel I should monitor in order to make sure that I am consistently producing the same every time? Any suggestions? Thank you

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