Polyacrylamides

When the TGA weight loss curves are plotted, all curves show significant moisture loss as soon as heating is started. The evolution of moisture is essentially completed by 200 °C. As the temperature is further increased, decomposition of the polymer 

The DTG curve in this region indicates that the decomposition rate reaches its maximum at about 370 °C. At about 500 °C the weight of the sample becomes constant, and a char-like material remains. 

Sample Decomposition region Temperature range (°C) With moisture Moisture free 

PAANA begins to degrade at a higher temperature (260 °C). As the temperature increases to about 400 °C, the second decomposition process occurs. It reaches the maximum decomposition rate at about 425 °C, as indicated by the DTG curve. At 500 °C a plateau is observed in the DTG curve, as dw/dt is zero. It is reasonable to assume that the first decomposition of PAANA is due to the decomposition of the carboxylate group, and the second decomposition region is due to the degradation of the backbone of the polymer. 

Ammonia gas m/e 17) is evolved in the first decomposition temperature range for polyacrylamide. Other peaks corresponding to m/e 18, 28, 32, 40, 42, 44, 54 and 58 indicate the possibility that water, carbon monoxide, nitrogen, carbon dioxide and CONH and other species may be released at this temperature. The evolution of ammonia supports the theory that imidisation between neighbouring amide groups in polyacrylamide constitutes one of the major decomposition reactions in this region. 

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Electrophoresis is used primarily to analyze mix tures of peptides and proteins rather than individual ammo acids but analogous principles apply Because they incorporate different numbers of ammo acids and because their side chains are different two pep tides will have slightly different acid-base properties and slightly different net charges at a particular pH Thus their mobilities m an electric field will be differ ent and electrophoresis can be used to separate them The medium used to separate peptides and proteins is typically a polyacrylamide gel leading to the term gel electrophoresis for this technique... 

The contents of each tube are then subjected to electrophoresis m separate lanes on the same sheet of polyacrylamide gel and the DNAs located by autoradiography A typical electrophoresis gel of a DNA fragment containing 50 nucleotides will exhibit a pattern of 50 bands distributed among the four lanes with no overlaps Each band cor responds to a polynucleotide that is one nucleotide longer than the one that precedes it (which may be m a different lane) One then simply reads the nucleotide sequence according to the lane m which each succeeding band appears... 

Directions for preparing a potentiometric biosensor for penicillin are provided in this experiment. The enzyme penicillinase is immobilized in a polyacrylamide polymer formed on the surface of a glass pH electrode. The electrode shows a linear response to penicillin G over a concentration range of 10 M to 10 M. 

Mifflin and associates described a membrane electrode for the quantitative analysis of penicillin in which the enzyme penicillinase is immobilized in a polyacrylamide gel that is coated on a glass pH electrode. The following data were collected for a series of penicillin standards. 

There are several forms of electrophoresis. In slab gel electrophoresis the conducting buffer is retained within a porous gel of agarose or polyacrylamide. Slabs are formed by pouring the gel between two glass plates separated by spacers. Typical thicknesses are 0.25-1 mm. Gel electrophoresis is an important technique in biochemistry, in which it is frequently used for DNA sequencing. Although it is a powerful tool for the qualitative analysis of complex mixtures, it is less useful for quantitative work. 

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