The main techniques developed to characterize chitosan are recalled. The interaction of chitosan with oppositely charged surfactants was investigated giving very important surface activity effects. A few chemical modifications are described and the new properties obtained are mentioned: alkylation gives amphiphilic polymers having interesting thickening behavior; grafting cyclodextrin (chit‐CD) gives a polymer able to include hydrophobic molecules; grafting adamantane gives an amphiphilic polymer able to specifically interact with chit‐CD forming a temporary network with gel‐like behavior.
The viscosities of adamantane‐chitosan, cyclodextrin‐chitosan, and unmodified chitosan solutions studied here. 相似文献
A simple and efficient method for the preparation of a novel soluble chitosan derivative, diethoxy phosphoryl chitosan (PH‐chitosan), has been developed. Ph‐chitosan was characterized by elemental analysis, FT‐IR, NMR, ICP, XRD, TG and SEM, respectively. The chemical identity of PH‐chitosan was determined by FT‐IR and confirmed by NMR, and those results unequivocally demonstrated that diethoxy phosphoryl groups were grafted onto the amino and hydroxyl groups of chitosan. The results of XRD indicated that the crystalline structure of chitosan was destroyed due to the incorporation of diethoxy phosphoryl group resulting in loss of hydrogen bond. The analysis of TG demonstrated that PH‐chitosan was less thermal stable than chitosan. This simple synthetic method provided a new and available approach to prepare a soluble high molecule weight chitosan derivative. 相似文献
Chitosan (CTS) has been used as a nerve guidance conduit (NGC) material for bridging peripheral nerve defects due to its biocompatible, biodegradable, and non-toxic properties. However, the nerve regeneration effect of chitosan alone is restricted due to its inadequate biological activity. Herein, a composite, bioactive chitosan based nerve conduit, consisting of outer warp-knitted tube scaffold made from medical-grade chitosan fiber, and inner porous cross linked carboxymethyl chitosan (C-CM-CTS) sponge with radial texture was developed. The inner wall of the scaffold was coated with C-CM-CTS solution. CM-CTS provided favorable bioactivities in the composite chitosan-based nerve conduit. An in vitro study of CM-CTS revealed its satisfying biocompatibility with fibroblast and its inhibition of oxidative damage to Schwann cells. As the internal filler of the NGC, the lyophilized sponge of C-CM-CTS showed a longitudinal guidance effect for nerve reconstruction. After 10 mm defect in rat sciatic nerve was bridged with the composite bioactive chitosan-based nerve conduit, the nerve conduit was able to effectively promote axonal regeneration and played a positive role in inducing nerve regeneration and functional recovery. In addition to the functional advantages, which are equal to those of an autograft; the technology for the preparation of this conduit can be put into mass production. 相似文献