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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 23.
Published in final edited form as: Nano Lett. 2004 Jul 13;4(8):1501–1506. doi: 10.1021/nl0493592

Table 1.

Characteristics of RGD Peptide-Organized Alginate Gels

bulk RGD densitya (μg/mg alginate) number of peptides per alginate chain dilution factor idealized RGD island spacing (nm)
0.125 1 50 134
2 100 168
1.25 1 5 62
2 10 78
6.25 1 1 36
4 4 58
10 10 78
12.5 2 1 36
a

The mole ratio of carboxylate/sulfo-NHS/EDC in the reaction was kept constant at 40:1:2, and the amount of RGD peptides was varied. The reaction time was 24 h.