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Chem Commun (Camb). 2018 Oct 11;54(82):11582-11585. doi: 10.1039/c8cc06422a.

Facile, shear-induced, rapid formation of stable gels of chitosan through in situ generation of colloidal metal salts.

Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)

Kartik Ravishankar, Hemalatha Kanniyappan, K M Shelly, Vignesh Muthuvijayan, Raghavachari Dhamodharan

Affiliations

  1. Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, Tamil Nadu, India. [email protected].

PMID: 30264065 DOI: 10.1039/c8cc06422a

Abstract

A novel method of preparing chitosan gels using in situ generated negatively-charged colloidal salts of a variety of metal ions is described. Their potential as scaffolds for tissue-engineering and as recoverable catalysts in aza-Michael addition is demonstrated here. Given their wide range of properties, they have broad scope for applications.

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