Paper Title:

Preparation of Anisotropic Chitosan Hydrogel with Birefringence and Analysis of Gel Formation Process

Periodical Key Engineering Materials (Volume 459)
Main Theme Silicon Science and Advanced Micro-Device Engineering I
Edited by Osamu Hanaizumi and Masafumi Unno
Pages 48-50
DOI 10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.459.48
Citation Naoko Tomita et al., 2010, Key Engineering Materials, 459, 48
Online since December, 2010
Authors Naoko Tomita, Yasuyuki Maki, Takao Yamamoto, Toshiaki Dobashi
Keywords Birefringence, Chitosan (CS), Dynamics, Hydrogel
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Abstract

We have prepared an anisotropic hydrogel with birefringence by means of dialysis method and analyzed the dynamics of the gel-forming process using purified chitosan with the degree of deacetylation at 100%. The dynamics was expressed well by a theory based on “moving boundary picture”(Nobe, Dobashi and Yamamoto, Langmuir 2005).