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CARBOHYDRATE POLYMERS
Volume 88, Issue 1, Pages 352-360Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2011.12.015
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Covalent-bonded network; Complexation; Sodium hyaluronate; Poly(amido amine) dendrimer; Coupling reaction; Bead & string network; Sodium poly-L-glutamate
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Amine-terminated poly(amido amine) (PAMAM) dendrimers have been attached to sodium hyaluronates (NaHAs) by a coupling reaction. The morphology of NaHAs was varied from the common network to the bead & string network, which gave rise to the decrease in viscosity of NaHAs. The bead & string network was more abundant for the covalent network complex than the noncovalent one. The beads, that is, the nano-knots of the network consist of the covalent-bonded NaHA/dendrimer composites, and the strings are NaHA chains. Beads became small and strings decreased in number with decreasing a molecular weight of NaHA. The complexation of sodium poly-L-glutamates (NaPGAs) with PAMAM dendrimers was different in the manner from that of NaHAs with dendrimers. Flexible NaPGAs produced globular composites with dendrimers. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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