Thermal gelation of chitosan in an aqueous alkali-urea solution.

نویسندگان

  • Chong Li
  • Qiuyan Han
  • Ying Guan
  • Yongjun Zhang
چکیده

Chitosan can readily dissolve in a precooled aqueous alkali-urea solution, a solvent that has previously been developed to dissolve cellulose. Upon heating, the resulting solutions quickly become a gel. The thermal gelling of the chitosan solutions was studied by rheology. Initially, a temperature ramp test was used to determine the gelation temperatures (Tgel). It was found that Tgel does not significantly change with chitosan concentration. The in situ formed gels liquefy on cooling, but the liquefication temperature (Tliq) is considerably lower than Tgel, indicating a large hysteresis in the cooling process. In addition, Tliq decreases with increasing polymer concentration. The kinetics of thermal gelation was then studied by isothermal curing. The solution gels were cured not only at temperatures above the Tgel, which was determined in the temperature ramp test, but also at temperatures far below the Tgel, provided that the solution is cured at the temperature for a long enough time. The solutions become gel faster when cured at higher temperatures. When cured at the same temperature, higher concentration solutions become gel faster. The apparent activation energy for the thermal gelation of the chitosan solutions was determined to be ∼200 kJ mol(-1). Physical gels of pure chitosan were obtained by repeated soaking the in situ formed gels in water. Preliminary test shows that new gels are highly biocompatible.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Soft matter

دوره 10 41  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2014