壳聚糖接枝共聚改性最新研究进展

壳聚糖是一种天然高分子,也是迄今为止唯一发现的阳离子碱性多糖。壳聚糖分子链中富含羟基和氨基等反应性官能团,具有生物相容性、生物可降解性、抗菌性、无细胞毒性等优良性能,在生化、医药、环保、农业等领域有广泛的应用前景。然而,由于其大分子具有较好的立构规整性和较强的氢键作用,除稀盐酸、稀醋酸外,壳聚糖不溶于水和其它有机溶剂,因而限制了它的应用范围。为了扩大其应用领域,常通过接枝共聚反应来改善壳聚糖的性能。本文介绍了壳聚糖接枝共聚改性的最新研究进展,包括自由基引发接枝法、偶联接枝法以及催化接枝法。     

甲壳素和壳聚糖的接枝共聚改性

天然高分子甲壳素、壳聚糖由于分子链上大量存在的反应性官能团 ,易于通过自由基引发与乙烯基单体接枝共聚 ,也可与其它高分子链偶合制得接枝共聚物。通过接枝共聚改性 ,可以赋予甲壳素和壳聚糖以某些新的性能 ,扩大了其应用范围。本文对甲壳素、壳聚糖的接枝共聚改性反应进展、机理以及产物的性能等进行了介绍     

壳聚糖改性技术的新进展Ⅰ．烷基化、酰化以及接枝化改性

壳聚糖是一种新型高分子功能材料,自身具有优良的生物性能.为克服其溶解性较差等缺陷,扩大其应用范围,常采用物理和化学的手段对壳聚糖改性,以改善其物理、化学性能,本文介绍了自2000年以来国内外关于壳聚糖物理和化学改性方面的最新研究进展,阐释了改性途径以及对改性后所得衍生物的相关表征.主要涉及到壳聚糖的烷基化、酰化以及接枝化改性等途径,并列表比较了以上各种手段的改性效果.本文的下篇<壳聚糖改性技术的新进展Ⅱ.交联化、季铵盐化、羧基化改性以及其低聚糖衍生物>将继续介绍基于壳聚糖的其它改性手段的最新进展.     

甲壳素和壳聚糖在离子液体中的溶解、材料化以及衍生化

甲壳素和壳聚糖是可再生的大分子生物质资源.由于分子内和分子间的强烈氢键作用,甲壳素和壳聚糖不能溶解在水或常规有机溶剂中,这极大地限制了其在诸多领域中的应用.离子液体作为一种新型绿色溶剂,对甲壳素和壳聚糖具有优良的溶解作用.本文综述了离子液体对甲壳素和壳聚糖的溶解性能和溶解机理,概述了均相溶液体系中纤维、膜、凝胶等材料的制备以及酰化、接枝共聚、交联、降解、希夫碱化等多种衍生化反应,总结了离子液体在甲壳素和壳聚糖化学研究中面临的挑战并对其进行了展望.     

高效抗菌Cu2+-壳聚糖季铵盐/丙烯酸复合物的制备

以过硫酸铵为引发剂,在壳聚糖季铵盐（HACC）上接枝丙烯酸（AAc）并络合Cu²⁺,制备了具有高效抗菌性能的HACC-g-PAAc-Cu²⁺复合物.采用红外光谱（FTIR）和核磁共振波谱（¹H NMR）表征了壳聚糖季铵盐接枝改性前后的化学结构变化;利用紫外-可见吸收光谱（UV-Vis）、Cu²⁺选择电极和热失重分析（TGA）表征了壳聚糖季铵盐接枝前后负载Cu²⁺的能力;测定了HACC-Cu²⁺和HACC-g-PAAc-Cu²⁺对金黄色葡萄球菌及大肠杆菌的最小抑菌浓度,并对小鼠经口摄入毒性和兔皮肤敷涂刺激性进行了考察.研究结果表明,在壳聚糖季铵盐上负载Cu²⁺能够有效提高其抗菌性;接枝丙烯酸能提高HACC负载Cu²⁺的能力和抗菌性,Cu/HACC结构单元的摩尔比由接枝前的3：7提高到接枝后的1：1;对金黄色葡萄球菌的最小抑菌浓度由60 mg/L下降到9.2 mg/L,对大肠杆菌的最小抑菌浓度由37 mg/L下降到6.3 mg/L,无摄入毒性和皮肤刺激性.     

单模微波辐照下壳聚糖-左旋聚乳酸接枝共聚物的酶催化合成

以猪胰脂肪酶(PPL)代替传统的有机金属作为催化剂,在单模微波辐照下利用左旋丙交酯(L-LA)的开环聚合制备壳聚糖-左旋聚乳酸(CS-g-PLLA)接枝共聚物.考察了反应温度及酶用量对接枝率的影响.以此为基础,利用DTG、XRD和3T3成纤维细胞培养对产物的物理性能及细胞相容性进行分析.结果显示,猪胰酶可有效催化接枝反应的进行.反应温度和酶用量对产物的接枝率有较大影响.在单模微波作用下,较低的反应温度(50℃)可获得具有较高接枝率(178.8%)的接枝产物.与纯壳聚糖相比,接枝产物的结晶度和热稳定性降低,说明PLLA的引入破坏了壳聚糖的高结晶性.产物具有良好的细胞相容性,可作为优良的组织工程支架材料.     

壳聚糖与N-异丙基丙烯酰胺接枝共聚凝胶的辐射合成及性能研究

采用γ辐射技术引发壳聚糖与N异丙基丙烯酰胺进行接枝共聚,制备了温度及pH敏感水凝胶.研究了单体浓度、辐射剂量等对接枝率和接枝效率的影响,并用13CCPMASNMR和TG表征了接枝物的结构.研究结果表明,用γ射线引发壳聚糖接枝异丙基丙烯酰胺具有较高的接枝率和接枝效率,接枝的聚合物具有明显的温度及pH敏感的特点.     

甲壳素/壳聚糖接枝共聚反应

综述了近年来甲壳素/壳聚糖接枝共聚的研究进展。以不同单体分类,分别综述了壳聚糖与小分子乙烯基单体、大分子聚乙二醇单体、聚乳酸单体、环糊精、树状大分子接枝的研究,并介绍了新的接枝技术——生物催化接枝共聚,以及接枝壳聚糖衍生物的应用。     

改性天然高分子絮凝剂制备的研究进展

天然高分子絮凝剂因其本身具有絮凝性,无毒,可生物降解,在水处理中具有广泛的应用前景。但因其不带电且溶解性差,造成其絮凝效果不理想,需通过改性,如醚化、接枝共聚等,在其分子链上引入各种官能团以改善其絮凝效果或改善其带电性、吸附性和杀菌性等。本文对目前常见的淀粉基、壳聚糖基、纤维素基和木质素基等天然高分子基改性絮凝剂,按不同改性方式进行分类概述,综述了近年来国内外改性天然高分子基絮凝剂的研究进展。同时还简单阐述了天然高分子基絮凝剂制备过程并对天然高分子基絮凝剂的研究方向进行了展望。     

葡萄糖响应苯硼酸接枝壳聚糖盐酸盐抗肿瘤药物载体

通过分子改性向壳聚糖盐酸盐高分子链中引入苯硼酸基,合成了双亲性化合物苯硼酸接枝壳聚糖盐酸盐.细胞毒性实验表明苯硼酸接枝壳聚糖盐酸盐具有良好的细胞相容性.该双亲性化合物能够自组装成胶束聚集体,并包封疏水药物.以阿霉素为模型药物,研究了载药胶束聚集体的体外药物释放行为,结果表明,阿霉素在载药胶束聚集体内能够持续释放,且具有葡萄糖响应性.在生理p H=7.4和固体肿瘤弱酸性(p H=6.5)条件下,药物的释放速度十分缓慢,而当释放介质中有葡萄糖存在时,药物释放速度都明显加快.     

Recent Developments in Chitosan-Based Micro/Nanofibers for Sustainable Food Packaging,Smart Textiles,Cosmeceuticals, and Biomedical Applications

Chitosan has many useful intrinsic properties (e.g., non-toxicity, antibacterial properties, and biodegradability) and can be processed into high-surface-area nanofiber constructs for a broad range of sustainable research and commercial applications. These nanofibers can be further functionalized with bioactive agents. In the food industry, for example, edible films can be formed from chitosan-based composite fibers filled with nanoparticles, exhibiting excellent antioxidant and antimicrobial properties for a variety of products. Processing ‘pure’ chitosan into nanofibers can be challenging due to its cationic nature and high crystallinity; therefore, chitosan is often modified or blended with other materials to improve its processability and tailor its performance to specific needs. Chitosan can be blended with a variety of natural and synthetic polymers and processed into fibers while maintaining many of its intrinsic properties that are important for textile, cosmeceutical, and biomedical applications. The abundance of amine groups in the chemical structure of chitosan allows for facile modification (e.g., into soluble derivatives) and the binding of negatively charged domains. In particular, high-surface-area chitosan nanofibers are effective in binding negatively charged biomolecules. Recent developments of chitosan-based nanofibers with biological activities for various applications in biomedical, food packaging, and textiles are discussed herein.     

壳聚糖在胃溃疡药物中的应用进展

壳聚糖无毒、具有良好的生物活性、可生物降解,可安全可靠的用于胃溃疡药物中.综述了近年来国内外壳聚糖因其不同的生物特性在胃溃疡药物中的应用研究进展,包括壳聚糖抗酸作用、抗幽门螺杆菌、保护胃粘膜等作用以及壳聚糖作为药物缓释材料.     

壳聚糖静电纺纳米纤维的制备和特点

对纯壳聚糖、壳聚糖和聚合物的混合物、壳聚糖和蛋白质的混合物、壳聚糖衍生物、壳聚糖和无机纳米颗粒的混合物等静电纺纳米纤维的制备和特点进行了综述,对部分壳聚糖纳米纤维的应用进行了简述。     

Review: Preparation and Application of Magnetic Chitosan Derivatives in Separation Processes

Chitosan is one of the most abundant natural polysaccharide in nature. Due to its unique properties, chitosan has fascinated the scientific community since its discovery. When modified with other materials and combined with magnetic particles, the resulting composite material, a magnetic chitosan derivative, is provided with three significant characteristics. First, chitosan has excellent properties for preconcentration/extraction, such as adsorption and chelating effects, low cost, and nontoxicity. Second, new functional groups have enhanced the properties of chitosan that include water solubility, stability, recyclability, and enhanced adsorption capacity. Finally, due to the efficient and fast adsorption processes, as well as simple and convenient magnetic separation, the magnetic adsorbents greatly reduce the time of sample handling. In this article, recent synthesis and modification methods of magnetic chitosan derivatives are reviewed along with some applications in analytical separations.     

Influence of pH, ionic strength, and temperature on self-association and interactions of sodium dodecyl sulfate in the absence and presence of chitosan

Chitosan is a cationic biopolymer that has many potential applications in the food industry because of its unique nutritional and physicochemical properties. Many of these properties depend on its ability to interact with anionic surface-active molecules, such as surfactants, phospholipids, and bile acids. The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of pH (3 and 7), ionic strength (0-200 mM NaCl), and temperature (10-50 degrees C) on the interactions between a model anionic surfactant (sodium dodecyl sulfate, SDS) and chitosan using isothermal titration calorimetry, selective surfactant electrode, and turbidity measurements. At pH 3 and 30 degrees C, SDS bound strongly to chitosan to form an insoluble complex that contained about 4-5 mmol of SDS/1 g of chitosan at saturation. When SDS and chitosan were mixed at pH 7 they did not interact strongly, presumably because the biopolymer had lost most of its positive charge at this pH. However, when SDS and chitosan were mixed at pH 3 and then the solution was adjusted to pH 7, the SDS remained bound to the chitosan. The presence of NaCl (0-200 mM) in the solutions decreased the critical micelle concentration (cmc) of SDS (in both the absence and the presence of chitosan) but had little influence on the amount of SDS bound to chitosan at saturation. The cmc of SDS and the amount of SDS bound to the chitosan at saturation were largely independent of the holding temperature (10-40 degrees C). Nevertheless, the enthalpy changes associated with micelle dissociation were highly temperature-dependent, indicating the importance of hydrophobic interactions, whereas the enthalpy changes associated with SDS-chitosan binding were almost temperature-independent, indicating the dominant contribution of electrostatic interactions. This study provides information that may lead to the rational design of chitosan-based ingredients or products with specific nutritional and functional characteristics, for example, cholesterol lowering.     

Current Status and New Perspectives on Chitin and Chitosan as Functional Biopolymers

The natural biopolymer chitin and its deacetylated product chitosan are found abundantly in nature as structural building blocks and are used in all sectors of human activities like materials science, nutrition, health care, and energy. Far from being fully recognized, these polymers are able to open opportunities for completely novel applications due to their exceptional properties which an economic value is intrinsically entrapped. On a commercial scale, chitosan is mainly obtained from crustacean shells rather than from the fungal and insect sources. Significant efforts have been devoted to commercialize chitosan extracted from fungal and insect sources to completely replace crustacean-derived chitosan. However, the traditional chitin extraction processes are laden with many disadvantages. The present review discusses the potential bioextraction of chitosan from fungal, insect, and crustacean as well as its superior physico-chemical properties. The different aspects of fungal, insects, and crustacean chitosan extraction methods and various parameters having an effect on the yield of chitin and chitosan are discussed in detail. In addition, this review also deals with essential attributes of chitosan for high value-added applications in different fields and highlighted new perspectives on the production of chitin and deacetylated chitosan from different sources with the concomitant reduction of the environmental impact.     

Chitosan and radiation chemistry

Chitosan as a raw material with special properties has drawn attention of scientists working in the field of radiation processing and natural polymer products development, and also of specialists working in the field of radiation protection and oncologists. Especially the applications concern reduced molecular weight chitosan which still retain its chemical structure; such form of the compound is fostering biological, physical and chemical reactivity of the product. Chitosan degrades into fragments under γ-ray or electron beam irradiation. Antibacterial properties of the product are applied in manufacturing hydrogel for wound dressing and additional healing properties can be achieved by incorporating in the hydrogel matrix chitosan bonded silver clusters. Another possible application of chitosan is in reducing radiation damage to the radiation workers or radiation cured patients. In the case of radioisotopes oral or respiratory chitosan-based materials can be applied as chelators. Applications of chitosan in oncology are also reported.     

Chitosan-based nanocomposites for medical applications

Chitosan as a biobased polymer is gaining increasing attention due to its extraordinary physico-chemical characteristics and properties. While a primary use of chitosan has been in horticultural and agricultural applications for plant defense and to increase crop yield, recent research reports display various new utilizations in the field of advanced biomedical devices, targeted drug delivery, and as bioimaging sensors. Chitosan possesses multiple characteristics such as antimicrobial properties, stimuli-responsiveness, tunable mechanical strength, biocompatibility, biodegradability, and water-solubility. Further, chitosan can be processed into nanoparticles, nano-vehicles, nanocapsules, scaffolds, fiber meshes, and 3D printed scaffolds for a variety of applications. In recent times, nanoparticles incorporated in chitosan matrices have been identified to show superior biological activity, as cells tend to proliferate/differentiate faster when they interact with nanocomposites rather than bulk or micron size substrates/scaffolds. The present article intents to cover chitosan-based nanocomposites used for regenerative medicine, wound dressings, drug delivery, and biosensing applications.     

Biodegradable biocompatible xyloglucan films for various applications

Polysaccharides are known for their film-forming properties which have been intensively investigated for food and non-food applications. Here we have developed a xyloglucan transparent film for various applications especially in controlled release of drugs and cosmetics. The present study evaluated the properties of the composite films of xyloglucan, chitosan and rice starch obtained by the casting/solvent evaporation method. Xyloglucan chitosan blend film shows better mechanical properties. Hydrophobicity and crystallinity of xyloglucan film was increased by blending with chitosan. This was confirmed by X-ray diffraction studies and contact angle measurements. Scanning electron microscopic observations indicated that the xyloglucan chitosan blend films were smooth and homogenous. Thermogravimetric and differential scannining calorimetric analysis showed a high thermal stability and melting temperature of xyloglucan chitosan film compared with others. The swelling properties of the xyloglucan chitosan blend film, studied as a function of pH showed that the sorption ability of the blend film was high at a pH 7.4. This indicates its controlled release property at that pH. Controlled drug release property of the film was studied by using streptomycin as a model drug.     

Lactic acid demineralization of green crab (Carcinus maenas) shells: effect of reaction conditions and isolation of an unusual calcium complex

Chitin and chitosan are potentially useful and environmentally friendly biopolymers with a wide range of value-added applications. Effective and green technologies for isolation of these materials are potentially important. Here, we report the use of lactic acid for the demineralization of green crab shells. Green crab shells and lactic acid, produced during cheese making, are two waste streams that could be tapped for large-scale chitin and chitosan processing. We have studied the effect of concentration and temperature on the demineralization of green crab shells. An unusual calcium lactate/lactic acid complex was also isolated and crystallographically characterized. The results have implications not only for the use of weak acids in the isolation of chitin and chitosan but also for the use of lactic acid as a solvent in green chemistry.