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MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING C-MATERIALS FOR BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS
Volume 30, Issue 3, Pages 352-356Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.msec.2009.11.010
Keywords
Sodium carboxymethylcellulose; Sodium alginate; Dextran; Hydrogels; Polysaccharide sponges; Nanoparticles
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- Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Commission, London
- Department of Science and Technology (DST), New Delhi
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Novel polysaccharide sponges containing a network of capillaries and pore structures have been prepared by freeze drying of Ca2+ ion cross-linked sodium carboxymethylcellulose/sodium alginate hydrogels with or without addition of dextran. The iontropic gels consisted of capillaries, 5 to 40 mu m in width, which comprised small pores, 1-25 mu m in size. Gold, Fe3O4 or TiO2 nanoparticles were encapsulated in the patterned gels and the mechanical strength of the resulting sponges investigated. Crown Copyright (C) 2009 Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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