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Insights on Some Polysaccharide Gel Type Materials and Their Structural Peculiarities

Global resources have to be used in responsible ways to ensure the world’s future need for advanced materials. Ecologically friendly functional materials based on biopolymers can be successfully obtained from renewable resources, and the most prominent example is cellulose, the well-known most abund...

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Autores principales: Duceac, Ioana Alexandra, Stanciu, Magdalena-Cristina, Nechifor, Marioara, Tanasă, Fulga, Teacă, Carmen-Alice
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9778405/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36547295
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/gels8120771
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author Duceac, Ioana Alexandra
Stanciu, Magdalena-Cristina
Nechifor, Marioara
Tanasă, Fulga
Teacă, Carmen-Alice
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description Global resources have to be used in responsible ways to ensure the world’s future need for advanced materials. Ecologically friendly functional materials based on biopolymers can be successfully obtained from renewable resources, and the most prominent example is cellulose, the well-known most abundant polysaccharide which is usually isolated from highly available biomass (wood and wooden waste, annual plants, cotton, etc.). Many other polysaccharides originating from various natural resources (plants, insects, algae, bacteria) proved to be valuable and versatile starting biopolymers for a wide array of materials with tunable properties, able to respond to different societal demands. Polysaccharides properties vary depending on various factors (origin, harvesting, storage and transportation, strategy of further modification), but they can be processed into materials with high added value, as in the case of gels. Modern approaches have been employed to prepare (e.g., the use of ionic liquids as “green solvents”) and characterize (NMR and FTIR spectroscopy, X ray diffraction spectrometry, DSC, electronic and atomic force microscopy, optical rotation, circular dichroism, rheological investigations, computer modelling and optimization) polysaccharide gels. In the present paper, some of the most widely used polysaccharide gels will be briefly reviewed with emphasis on their structural peculiarities under various conditions.
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spelling pubmed-97784052022-12-23 Insights on Some Polysaccharide Gel Type Materials and Their Structural Peculiarities Duceac, Ioana Alexandra Stanciu, Magdalena-Cristina Nechifor, Marioara Tanasă, Fulga Teacă, Carmen-Alice Gels Review Global resources have to be used in responsible ways to ensure the world’s future need for advanced materials. Ecologically friendly functional materials based on biopolymers can be successfully obtained from renewable resources, and the most prominent example is cellulose, the well-known most abundant polysaccharide which is usually isolated from highly available biomass (wood and wooden waste, annual plants, cotton, etc.). Many other polysaccharides originating from various natural resources (plants, insects, algae, bacteria) proved to be valuable and versatile starting biopolymers for a wide array of materials with tunable properties, able to respond to different societal demands. Polysaccharides properties vary depending on various factors (origin, harvesting, storage and transportation, strategy of further modification), but they can be processed into materials with high added value, as in the case of gels. Modern approaches have been employed to prepare (e.g., the use of ionic liquids as “green solvents”) and characterize (NMR and FTIR spectroscopy, X ray diffraction spectrometry, DSC, electronic and atomic force microscopy, optical rotation, circular dichroism, rheological investigations, computer modelling and optimization) polysaccharide gels. In the present paper, some of the most widely used polysaccharide gels will be briefly reviewed with emphasis on their structural peculiarities under various conditions. MDPI 2022-11-26 /pmc/articles/PMC9778405/ /pubmed/36547295 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/gels8120771 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Stanciu, Magdalena-Cristina
Nechifor, Marioara
Tanasă, Fulga
Teacă, Carmen-Alice
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title_fullStr Insights on Some Polysaccharide Gel Type Materials and Their Structural Peculiarities
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title_short Insights on Some Polysaccharide Gel Type Materials and Their Structural Peculiarities
title_sort insights on some polysaccharide gel type materials and their structural peculiarities
topic Review
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9778405/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36547295
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/gels8120771
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