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CARBOHYDRATE POLYMERS
Volume 205, Issue -, Pages 225-235Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2018.10.033
Keywords
Polysaccharide; Hydrogel; Ordered structure; Multi-layered structure; Orientated structure
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51873187, 51473144]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
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Hydrogels are three-dimensional, hydrophilic, polymeric networks, held together by a variety of physical or chemical crosslinks. Among the numerous polymers that can be employed to fabricate hydrogel, polysaccharides have attracted enormous attention due to their peculiar properties that make them suitable for various applications. Compared with homogeneous hydrogels, hydrogels with ordered structures on various length scales are endowed with excellent properties and promising applications in materials science. In the present review, a wide range of techniques were introduced and discussed, which had been utilized to construct ordered hierarchical structures in polysaccharide hydrogels. These techniques focused on the construction of multi-layered and orientated structure, which are two typical and very important forms of hierarchical structure.
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