Process for preparation of electrophoresis gel material
AssigneeE. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
InventorCharles Baylor, Jr.
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Abstract
Describes a process for controlling the polymerization and cross-linked density of electrophoretic gel products useful for separation of bioorganic molecules, which process utilizes photoinitiation. Photoinitiated polymerized gels afford the desired advantages of being ultra thin and having a high electrophoretic resolution with programmable porosity profiles.
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A porous electrophoretic gel product comprising an aqueous-swelled porous polymer matrix, formed of polymerized and cross-linked monomers and a photoinitiator, which defines a volume, the product characterized by having a constant atomic composition over its volume, being stable, having a controlled, electrophoretic resolving capacity that is reproducible from gel to gel for the electrophoretic separation of charged macromolecular substances, having length, width and thickness dimensions, and having a porosity gradient along one of the length and width dimensions and uniform porosity along the thickness dimension which dimension is relativey thin.
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