Incorporating labile bonds inside polymer backbone and side chains yields interesting polymer materials that are responsive to change of environmental stimuli. Drugs can be …
The engineering of tissues under a three-dimensional (3D) microenvironment is a great challenge and needs a suitable supporting biomaterial-based scaffold that may facilitate cell …
Polysaccharides are a natural and renewable feed stock for synthesizing high performance macromolecular materials. A popular, versatile and convenient route to develop …
B Maji, S Maiti - Carbohydrate Polymers, 2021 - Elsevier
Xanthan gum (XG) possesses numerous hydroxyl groups, which are the focal points for graft copolymerization of synthetic monomers. A detailed mechanism of graft copolymerization is …
X Shi, Y Zheng, G Wang, Q Lin, J Fan - RSC advances, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
In this work, hybrid hydrogels composed of bacterial cellulose nanofibers (nf-BC) and sodium alginate (SA) were prepared as a dual-stimuli responsive release system. The pH …
LI Atanase, J Desbrieres, G Riess - Progress in Polymer Science, 2017 - Elsevier
This review highlights recent advances in the micellization of synthetic graft copolymers and those based on natural precursors, particularly polysaccharides. Synthesis and …
A novel polymeric flocculant based on polyacrylamide grafted carboxymethyl guar gum (CMG-g-PAM) has been synthesised by grafting polyacrylamide chains onto CMG backbone …
Polysaccharide-based block copolymers have been studied since the early 1960s and command growing interest due to the increasing importance of sustainable materials …