Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1378610 | Carbohydrate Polymers | 2009 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
The relative viscosities of acetic acid solutions of chitosan at varied temperatures were measured in a common glass capillary Ubbelohde viscometer in the range from dilute down to extremely dilute concentration. With the aid of the newly proposed theory related to the effect of solute adsorption on the relative viscosity measurement, the experimental data was analyzed, and some interesting parameters describing the interfacial properties of viscous capillary flow were deduced. The change of the conformation of the chitosan chains both free dissolved in solution and adsorbed on the glass capillary surface were discussed in detail. Furthermore, the morphologies of the adsorbed chitosan was also observed by AFM.
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Authors
Zhengchun Cai, Jie Dai, Hu Yang, Rongshi Cheng,