Journal
CELLULOSE
Volume 19, Issue 3, Pages 947-958Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10570-012-9658-8
Keywords
Hydrogels; Swell ability; Metal uptake; Dyes; Antibacterial activity; Thermal stability
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Blend hydrogels composed of carboxymethyl chitosan (CMCh) and poly (acrylonitrile) (PAN) were synthesized via crosslinking method. Several analyses were made to investigate both physical and thermal properties of CMCh/PAN hydrogels like; FTIR, scanning electron microscope, XRD and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). TGA results showed that CMCh/PAN hydrogels are thermally more stable than CMCh and their thermal stability increases as PAN content increases in the hydrogel. Moreover, the swelling behavior of CMCh/PAN hydrogels was studied in different buffer solutions. It was found that CMCh/PAN hydrogels swell much more than PAN especially at pH 9. The hydrogels sorption for different dyestuff and various metal ions like; Cu2+, Cd2+ and Co2+ were also studied. In this work, antibacterial characteristic of hydrogels was mainly investigated towards Escherichia coli (E. coli) as a serious disease-leading bacterium. All tested hydrogels have clearly presented good antibacterial activity as CMCh content increases in the hydrogels.
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