Hydrated salts as both solvent and plasticizer for chitosan

Carbohydrate Polymers

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 993-996

  Hirase, Ryuji ^a   Higashiyama, Yukio ^a   Mori, Masaru ^a   Takahara, Yoshiyuki ^b   Yamane, Chihiro ^c  

^a HYOGO PREFECTURAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Ako Kasei Co Ltd   (Japan)

^c KOBE WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chitosan; Hydrated salt; Plasticizer; Solvent; Tensile; Viscoelastic property; Water content

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS SALT SOLUTION; AQUEOUS SALTS; DYNAMIC VISCOELASTIC PROPERTIES; ELONGATION AT BREAK; HIGH-VALENT CATIONS; HYDRATED SALT; TENSILE; VISCOELASTIC PROPERTIES; VISCOELASTIC PROPERTY;

ALUMINUM; CHITIN; CHITOSAN; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CHROMIUM; DISSOLUTION; HYDRATES; HYDRATION; IRON COMPOUNDS; PLASTICIZERS; REINFORCED PLASTICS; SALTS; SOLVENTS;

WATER CONTENT;

EID: 77949654799     PISSN: 01448617     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2010.01.001     Document Type: Article

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