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BIOMACROMOLECULES
Volume 8, Issue 1, Pages 113-121Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/bm060670i
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Understanding the adsorption properties of polysaccharides in terms of substrate affinity, kinetics, and layer structure is of paramount importance in numerous industrial and natural systems. The structural growth of the layers of two model polysaccharidessodium alginate and polygalacturonic acid (PGA)was characterized by quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation and atomic force microscopy. Monitoring the variations in frequency and dissipation energy provides insights into both the average adsorbed mass and the viscoelastic properties of the adsorbed layer of polyelectrolytes along with the associated ions and water molecules. Both polysaccharides had similar adsorption patterns with increasing ionic strengths and showed significant complexation of calcium ions. In the presence of calcium, the alginate gel layer exhibited significant swelling with an increasing concentration of monovalent salt that the PGA gel layer did not manifest. Basing our discussion on the egg-box model, we interpreted these different swelling behaviors as resulting from differences in the complexation modes of the two polysaccharides. The dimerization of the polymers by cross-linking and the weaker dimer-dimer associations play major roles in the sensitivity of the polysaccharide gel matrix to high salt concentration environments.
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