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Study of the effect of reaction variables on grafting of polyacrylamide onto chitosan

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The biopolymer chitosan was chemically modified by grafting polyacrylamide in a homogeneous aqueous phase by using potassium persulfate as redox initiator system and in the presence of N,N-methylene-bis-acrylamide as a crosslinking agent. The percentage of grafting was found to depend on the relative amount of monomer to chitosan, initiator and volume of the aqueous phase as well as the reaction temperature. By using optimized combinations of the reaction variables a grafting efficiency up to 88% and a percentage of grafting of nearly 220% were reached. Evidence of grafting was obtained from comparison of FTIR of the grafted and nongrafted chitosan as well as solubility characteristics of the products.

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  1. Centro para la Investigación Multidisciplinaria Avanzada en Ciencias de los Materiales, Departamento de Química Orgánica y Fisicoquímica, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad de Chile, Olivos 1007, Santiago 1, Chile e-mail: myazdani@ciq.uchile.cl, Fax +56-2-7378920, , , , , , CL

    M. Yazdani-Pedram & A. Lagos

  2. Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas, Universidad de Chile, Olivos 1007, Santiago 1, Chile, , , , , , CL

    P. Jaime Retuert

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Received: 24 August 2001/Revised version: 7 January 2002/ Accepted: 10 January 2002

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Yazdani-Pedram, M., Lagos, A. & Retuert, P. Study of the effect of reaction variables on grafting of polyacrylamide onto chitosan. Polymer Bulletin 48, 93–98 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00289-002-0006-2

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