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Langmuir. 2017 Nov 07;33(44):12697-12707. doi: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b02997. Epub 2017 Oct 24.

Dynamic Structuration of Physical Chitosan Hydrogels.

Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids

Nicolas Sereni, Alin Enache, Guillaume Sudre, Alexandra Montembault, Cyrille Rochas, Philippe Durand, Marie-Hélène Perrard, Grigore Bozga, Jean-Pierre Puaux, Thierry Delair, Laurent David

Affiliations

  1. Université de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 , CNRS UMR 5223 Ingénierie des Matériaux Polymères IMP@Lyon1, 15 bd Latarjet, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France.
  2. Centre for Technology Transfer in the Process Industries, Department of Chemical Engineering, University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest , 1 Polizu Street, RO-011061 Bucharest, Romania.
  3. Université de Grenoble, Université Joseph Fourier , CERMAV-CNRS UPR5301 Centre de Recherches sur les Macromolécules Végétales, Boîte Postale 53, F-38041 Grenoble Cedex, France.
  4. Kallistem, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon , 46 Allée d'Italie, 69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France.

PMID: 29019693 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b02997

Abstract

We studied the microstructure of physical chitosan hydrogels formed by the neutralization of chitosan aqueous solutions highlighting the structural gradients within thick gels (up to a thickness of 16 mm). We explored a high polymer concentrations range (C

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