polyalternating

English

Etymology

From poly- +‎ alternating.

Adjective

polyalternating (not comparable)

1. (chemistry) Describing a copolymer in which two monomers alternate in position
   • 2015 October 24, “Energy Landscape of Alginate-Epimerase Interactions Assessed by Optical Tweezers and Atomic Force Microscopy”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     Alginates with polyalternating sequences (poly-MG) have also been shown to form ionotropic hydrogels [2, 10, 11 ], however, these are much weaker than those made from alginates with a high content of G-blocks.