Diffusion Through Membranes of the Polyelectrolyte Complex of Chitosan and Alginate

The swelling of membranes of the polyelectrolyte complex (PEC) between chitosan and alginate shows a similar pattern to that of other PECs. However, if the swelled membranes are dried, a second swelling process is seen which exhibits Fickian behavior. The apparent activation energy was estimated to be 32.8 kJ · mol^?1. The release rate of model solutes was highly dependent on their molecular weight and the pH of the medium.

Arrhenius type plot of the temperature dependence of the apparent diffusion coefficients for the membrane of the polyelectrolyte complex between chitosan and alginate in water.     

Conductivity of Aqueous Solutions of Low-Molecular Chitosan

Solutions of chitosan with molecular weight (MW) of 20000, 9600, and 3700 Da are studied conductimetrically and viscosimetrically. The dependence of solution conductivity on the chitosan concentration begins to deviate from linearity simultaneously with an abrupt increase in the solution viscosity starting from concentrations of 20–30 g l^–1. The fraction of free counterions (Cl^–, CH₃COO^–) in the 0.1 g-equiv l^–1 chitosan solutions significantly depends on the sample's MW. The charge is transferred in solutions predominantly by chloride and acetate ions, with the high-MW cation barely contributing to conduction.     

壳聚糖在1-乙基-3-甲基咪唑醋酸盐溶液中的流变行为

离子液体1-乙基-3-甲基咪唑醋酸盐（[EMIM]Ac）对壳聚糖具有良好的溶解能力。利用新一代旋转流变仪哈克MARS-Ⅲ考察了壳聚糖-[EMIM]Ac溶液的稳态流变和动态流变性能。稳态流变结果表明：当低黏均分子量壳聚糖离子液体溶液的质量分数在3%以下时,溶液呈牛顿性流体特征,高于此质量分数时溶液呈假塑性流体特征;壳聚糖离子液体溶液的黏度、结构黏度指数随着温度升高而降低;在同一质量分数下,溶液黏度随壳聚糖黏均分子量的增大而增加,溶液的恒剪切活化能黏流活化能随着剪切速率的增大而降低。动态流变结果表明：溶液的储能模量和损耗模量随着温度的升高而下降,储能模量与损耗模量存在一个交叉点,该交叉点随着温度升高向高频区移动。     

海藻酸钠和壳聚糖聚电解质微胶囊及其生物医学应用

本文综述了天然多糖聚电解质海藻酸钠和壳聚糖的结构与化学性能（包括凝胶性能、生物相容性、生物可降解性及温和反应性）;微胶囊制备技术及其强度性能和膜渗透性评价方法;微胶囊作为细胞载体在体内分泌治疗性物质（如：胰岛素、多巴胺）或分解代谢毒性物质（如：尿素）,作为三维药物筛选系统、干细胞增殖分化研究工具,以及药物释放载体等生物医学领域的研究进展;最后讨论了天然多糖微胶囊研究与应用中需要解决的问题。     

Solution Properties of Partially Hydrolysed Polyacrylamide and Chitosan Mixed Solutions

Summary: In this paper, the properties of a partially hydrolysed polyacrylamide with a low charge density and chitosan mixtures were evaluated in an aqueous acid solution. The formation of a soluble complex was followed by conductometry and potentiometry, and the stoichiometry at the titration endpoint was investigated as a function of the polyanion added. The influence of salts on the titration endpoint and on the rheological behavior of the mixed solutions was also studied. The mixture of equal concentration of both polymers, in the absence of salt, presented synergy, with a significant viscosity increase. Nevertheless, in the presence of salts, this mixture presented minimum viscosity. These results were discussed as a function of the polymers structural features and the environment used in the study.     

Strategy for Better Ordering in Diblock Copolymer Based Nanocomposites

A simple approach to improve the structural ordering in block copolymer/nanoparticle nanocomposites is presented. It is to blend a small molecular weight homopolymer with the composites, which can uniformly swell the preferred domain where the nanoparticles locate and increase the conformational entropy of the domain. Consequently, the interfaces between the block copolymer domains become smooth that improves the long range order in the nanocomposites. Furthermore, the uniform swelling of the preferred domain by the homopolymer will allow higher loading of nanoparticles without adversely affecting the long range order.

     

Electrostatically-driven Ordering in Model Dendrimer Polyelectrolytes: Effects of Concentration

In this study we extend our previous work in the self-organization of dendrimer polyelectrolytes (Macromolecules, 2008 , 41, 225) by examining the effects of dendrimer concentration and/or total volume fraction in the ordering process and the resulting structure, in the arrangement of counterions and dendrimer beads and in the diffusive motion of dendrimers at different strengths of Coulombic interactions. It is found that as long as the total volume fraction remains low (i.e. no jamming phenomena intervene) the symmetry of the resulted cubic phases is unaltered. At a higher volume fraction and at the strong electrostatic regime a kinetic arrest of the dendrimer molecules much in analogy to a colloidal glass-like transition is observed, inhibiting thus the ordering process. Changes in the strength of electrostatic interactions and dendrimer concentration induces a systematic variation of the counterion - counterion and the counterion - charged-dendrimer-bead spatial arrangement. These findings are in qualitative agreement with previous studies in systems with very different structural details of the considered solutes, indicating a more general behaviour in charged macroion/counterion solutions.     

壳聚糖硫酸酯的合成及其抑菌作用

以壳聚糖为原料,研究了合成壳聚糖硫酸酯的条件及其分子量对抑菌效果的影响。结果表明:改变反应温度可制备不同分子量的壳聚糖硫酸酯,并且其对金黄葡萄球菌、大肠杆菌有不同的抑菌效果。     

Enrichment and distribution of counterions in spherical polyelectrolyte brushes probed by SAXS

The spatial correlation of counterions [Li⁺, Na⁺, Rb⁺, Cs⁺, NH₄⁺, (CH₃)₄N⁺] with spherical polyelectrolyte brushes (SPBs), which consist of a PS core and chemically grafted PSS chains, was comprehensively studied through a combination of SAXS, DLS, and Zeta potential. Results show that the SAXS intensity profiles of the brush appears to be “insensitive” to the concentration of Na⁺. By contrast, introducing salt ions with a density lower than sodium [NH₄⁺, (CH₃)₄N⁺ and Li⁺] into the brush layer will cause a decrease in the scattering intensity while introducing those with a higher density than sodium (Rb⁺ and Cs⁺) will cause the opposite result. As verified by the combined results of SAXS, DLS, and Zeta potential, the collapse of the brush and the enrichment of the counterions in the brush layer occur simultaneously. It was further demonstrated that the concentration of counterions enriched in the innermost layer of the brush shell can be enhanced up to hundreds of times compared with the bulk concentration, and the counterion distribution in SPB shell follows a radial attenuation distribution. SAXS is confirmed to be powerful in probing the enrichment and distribution of counterions within SPB. © 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Polym. Sci., Part B: Polym. Phys. 2019 , 57, 738–747     

两性聚电解质溶液的分子热力学模型和分子动力学模拟

从带电硬球混合物出发采用化学缔合理论建立了聚电解质和两性聚电解质溶液的分子热力学模型.用考虑溶剂的粘滞力和热浴随机力作用的分子动力学(MD)方法模拟了聚电解质和两性聚电解质溶液的渗透系数.对模型预测结果和MD模拟结果进行了比较,表明基于化学缔合理论的分子热力学模型可以用于聚电解质溶液和两性聚电解质溶液热力学性质的预测,对于均聚电解质溶液效果令人满意,对由直径不同的离子构成的聚电解质溶液,模型的预测效果变差,有待进一步改进.该模型对两性聚电解质溶液渗透系数的预测效果比对聚电解质溶液的预测效果更好.     

Methylation of Chitosan with Iodomethane: Effect of Reaction Conditions on Chemoselectivity and Degree of Substitution

N,N,N‐trimethylchitosan (TMC) was prepared by reacting purified chitosan with iodomethane, in the presence of sodium hydroxide, water and sodium iodide, at room temperature. The reaction medium was N‐methyl‐2‐pyrrolidone. Different samples of TMC were obtained by adding to the reaction medium a fixed volume (5.5 mL) of aqueous NaOH solutions at different concentrations (15, 20, 30 and 40 wt.‐%) and carrying out the reactions for 9 or 24 h. The features observed in the ¹H and ¹³C NMR spectra of these chitosan derivatives, in respect of the chemical shift, number and relative intensity of the signals, depended strongly on the excess of NaOH and H₃CI added to the reaction medium, but when the lowest excess was employed, the characteristics of the derivative were not affected by the reaction time to the same extent. The average degree of quaternization of these N‐methylated derivatives of chitosan ranged from 10.5% to 44.8%, according to the reaction conditions. Increasing the excess of NaOH, in reactions carried out for 9 h, resulted in TMC samples with progressively higher content of trimethylated sites however, the reaction yields were correspondingly lower and O‐alkylation was favored in these cases.

¹H NMR spectrum of sample [A_X]^24h dissolved in D₂O (C_p = 10 g/L).     

Chitosan Macromolecules on a Substrate: Deposition from Solutions in sc CO2 and Reorganisation in Vapours

Specially pretreated chitosan macromolecules possess limited solubility in supercritical carbon dioxide. When deposited on mica substrate from such solutions they adopt somewhat extended conformation. The adsorbed macromolecules become mobile on the interface when exposed to water vapour as revealed by environmental scanning force microscopy. During the exposure in the presence of coadsorbed water layer the chitosan strands demonstrate slight tendency to adopt more compact but still two-dimensional conformation on the substrate.     

壳聚糖/羧甲基壳聚糖金属配合物对氧自由基的清除作用研究

以NADH-PMS-NBT体系产生超氧阴离子自由基(o2-·)和EDTANa2·Fe(Ⅱ)-H2O2体系产生 羟自由基(·OH)来研究壳聚糖Cu(Ⅱ)、Zn(Ⅱ)配合物、羧甲基壳聚糖Cu(Ⅱ)、Zn(Ⅱ)配合物时氧自由基的 清除作用。结果显示配合物对O2-·和·OH均具有明显的清除作用,其中铜(Ⅱ)配合物对O2-·的清除活 性最高,而锌(Ⅱ)配合物比铜(Ⅱ)配合物具有更强的清除·OH的能力,羧甲基壳聚糖Cu(Ⅱ)、Zn(Ⅱ)配合 物与含有相同金属离子的壳聚糖配合物相比对O2-·和·OH具有更高的抑制活性。     

Oxidized Dextran as Crosslinker for Chitosan Cryogel Scaffolds and Formation of Polyelectrolyte Complexes between Chitosan and Gelatin

Macroporous scaffolds composed of chitosan and using oxidized dextran as a crosslinker are produced through cryogelation. Introducing gelatin as a third component into the structure results in the formation of mesopores in the pore walls, which are not seen if gelatin is excluded. The mesoporous structure is explained by the formation of polyelectrolyte complexes between chitosan and gelatin before crosslinking takes place. The scaffolds exhibit highly elastic properties withstanding compressions up to 60%. The in vitro biocompatibility of the cryogels is evaluated using fibroblasts from a mouse cell line (L929) and it is seen that the cells adhere and proliferate on the scaffolds. The mesoporous structure seems to have a positive effect on proliferation.

     

Comparative Study for the Removal of Oxadiazon from Aqueous Solutions by Adsorption on Chitosan and Activated Carbon

Abstract

In the present investigation, chitosan and activated carbon are used as adsorbents for the removal of oxadiazon from aqueous solutions. The analyzing system was a gas chromatograph equipped with mass selective detector. The equilibrium studies are systematically carried out in a batch process, covering various process parameters that include agitation time, adsorbent dosage, and pH of the aqueous solution. Also, the relationship between extraction of oxadiazon and volume of aqueous/organic phase as well as the effect of inorganic salt were investigated. Adsorption behavior was found to follow Freundlich and Langmuir isotherms. The adsorption mechanism is described by a pseudo-second-order kinetics.     

壳聚糖及其衍生物处理工业废水的研究进展

综述了近年来壳聚糖及其衍生物在处理工业废水中的应用.壳聚糖及其衍生物可处理工业废水中的重金属离子,如Cr（Ⅵ）、Cu（Ⅱ）和Zn（Ⅱ）等;可处理含染料的工业废水,如处理直接紫B、直接绿BE以及甲基橙等染料;还可用于处理印染、造纸和含油废水.壳聚糖及其衍生物具有易分离、可生物降解,无污染等特点,是绿色的水处理剂,且我国壳聚糖资源极为丰富,探索其在工业废水处理中的应用有着重要的价值.     

壳聚糖的酶法降解

用壳聚糖酶降解壳聚糖,探讨了壳聚糖降解过程中温度、pH值、底物浓度和金属离子对酶促反应的影响。结果表明:酶促反应进行到5 h左右时,即可得到聚合度小于10的壳寡糖。该酶促反应的最适温度为50℃,最适pH=5.5;最适底物浓度为0.02 g/mL;金属离子Ca2+和Mg2+对酶降解有一定的促进作用,而Zn2+、Cu2+对酶降解有较强的抑制作用。该酶促反应符合米氏动力学方程,米氏常数Km=7.80 g/L,最大反应速率Vmax=7.72 g/(min.L)。     

呋喃甲酰壳聚糖的制备、表征及其抗氧化活性

以壳聚糖与呋喃甲酰氯反应得到呋喃甲酰壳聚糖。通过FT-IR、1 H-NMR、X射线衍射、热重分析、溶解度实验、元素分析、抗氧化活性测试等手段对产物进行了结构和性能表征。结果表明：产物为目标产物且热稳定性好于壳聚糖;在水中的溶解性能良好,溶解度为0.04g/mL;取代度为0.69;当对羟基自由基的清除率达到50%时,呋喃甲酰壳聚糖的质量浓度为1.1mg/mL,其还原能力随质量浓度增加而增强,抗氧化活性优于壳聚糖。     

石墨炉原子吸收法测定壳聚糖中的痕量镉

采用石墨炉原子吸收法直接测定了壳聚糖中的痕量镉，以HF-HClO4体系消化试样，用Pd(NO3)2作基本改进剂，灰化温度1000℃：，原子化温度2200℃。本法相对标准偏差为2．8％，回收率在97．0％-106．3％之间，快速，简便，准确。