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CARBOHYDRATE POLYMERS
Volume 190, Issue -, Pages 103-112Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2018.02.076
Keywords
Chitosan gels; Silver nanoparticles; Carbonic acid; High pressure; Carbon dioxide
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- Russian Foundation for Basic Research [16-03-00702-a]
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Chitosan-based hydrogels with stabilized Ag nanoparticles were synthesized in the aqueous solutions of carbonic acid, i.e. water saturated with CO2 under pressure in hundreds of bars. Such a medium is biocompatible and self-neutralizing at decompression. The influence of various parameters, such as chitosan molecular weight, molar ratio of chitosan to silver, additional stabilization of gels by genipin as a cross-linking agent, on the structure of the chitosan/Ag composites was investigated using transmission electron microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction analysis, rheology measurements. The distributions of chitosan-stabilized Ag nanoparticles in a chitosan matrix turned out to be uniform, their average size was in the range of 2-5 nm. The higher degree of Ag nanoparticles reduction could be achieved using self-eliminating gaseous hydrogen as an additional reducing agent being admixed to CO2. This was consistently confirmed by different research methods (TEM, XRDA, UV-vis spectroscopy).
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