Porous amphiphilic biogel from facile chemo-biosynthetic route

Autor: Nor Hidayah Ismail, Nor Faezah Ansari, Syed Mohammad Daniel Syed Mohamed, Thorsten Heidelberg, M. Suffian M. Annuar
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Journal of the Serbian Chemical Society, Vol 85, Iss 3, Pp 353-367 (2020)
ISSN: 1820-7421
0352-5139
Popis: Grafting of medium-chain-length poly-3-hydroxyalkanoates (mcl- -PHA) with glycerol 1,3-diglycerolate diacrylate (GDD) in acetone was performed using benzoyl peroxide as the initiator. A detailed mechanism scheme provides significant improvement to previous literature. Radical-mediated grafting generated ????carbon inter-linking of mcl-PHA and GDD, resulting in a macromolecular structure with gel properties. The thermal properties of the copolymer for different graft yields were investigated as a function of initiator concentration, GDD monomer concentration, incubation period and temperature. The water absorption and porosity of the gel were significantly improved relative to neat mcl-PHA.
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