| Abstract: | The interest for blends of synthetic and natural polymers is growing and several applications in many different fields are now becoming evident. The biological-synthetic polymers interactions play a relevant role in controlling the mechanism that constitutes the basis of biocompatibility of materials used in medicine. This work concerns with the preparation and chemico-physical and mechanical characterization of blends in which the biological component is hyaluronic acid or its benzyl ester derivatives, and the synthetic component is poly(vinyl alcohol) or ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymers. |
