ABSTRACT
Well-known powerful techniques are nowadays available for the study of the properties of glycomolecules; these include mass spectrometry, elec tromicroscopy, chromatography, and electrophoresis. Nevertheless, these techniques may be inadequate when the system either cannot be perturbed from its solution environment or has to be studied as a function of different solution parameters. In these cases, radiation scattering techniques can be quite useful because they do not perturb the system. In general radiation is scattered by inhomogeneities in a medium. Therefore, the scattered radia tion from a macromolecular solution bears information about the macro molecules themselves.
