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JOURNAL OF APPLIED POLYMER SCIENCE
Volume 107, Issue 6, Pages 3823-3830Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/app.27546
Keywords
chitosan; poly(ethylene glycol); crosslinking; mechanical properties; hydrogel
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Poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) crosslinked chitosan films with various PEG to chitosan ratio and PEG molecular weight were successfully prepared via the epoxy-amine reaction between chitosan and PEG-epoxy. The thermal and mechanical properties and swelling behavior were studied for the PEG crosslinked chitosan films. The mechanical strength of chitosan films were greatly enforced by the introduction of PEG-epoxy, achieving an elongation of about 80%. It was found that the crosslinked chitosan films form hydrogel in water, achieving a swelling ratio higher than 20 times of original weight. The swelling behavior of chitosan films relied greatly on the molecular weight of the crosslinker PEG-epoxy and the weight percent of PEG-epoxy. (C) 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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