Koya University researcher Mr. Rebaz Anwar Omer, lecturer at Faculty of Science and Health, Department of Chemistry, has published a new article on "Hydrogels from Dextran and Soybean Oil by UV Photo-Polymerization" in the Journal of Applied Polymer Chemistry. The research study hydrogels were synthesized by UV photo-polymerization of hydrophilic dextran functionalized with acrylate Groups (Dex-A) and hydrophobic acrylate epoxidized soybean oil.
ABSTRACT: In this work, hydrogels were synthesized by UV photo-polymerization of hydrophilic dextran functionalized with acrylate groups (Dex-A) and hydrophobic acrylate epoxidized soybean oil (AESO). The acrylation of dextran was accomplished by reacting dextran (Mw 70,000 g mol−1) with acryloyl chloride and pyridine. The Dex-A was characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). Five rigid hydrogels were prepared using the weight ratios of Dex-A and AESO as 10/90, 20/80, 30/70, 40/60, and 50/50. The hydrogels were characterized by FTIR, thermal gravimetric analyses (TGA) and scanning electronic microscopy (SEM). The experimental results demonstrated that the swelling and release profiles of the Dex-A/AESO hydrogels can be tailored by varying the ratio of Dex-A and AESO thus varying the balance of hydrophilicity and hydrophobicity of the network structures and the crosslinking density. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2014, 131, 41446.
Keywords: biopolymers and renewable polymers; gels; photopolymerization; polysaccharides; swelling
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Further information
DOI: 10.1002/app.41446 (AESO).
URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/app.41446/abstract
