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 |
| Price | US$ 28,- |
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).