Swelling and viscoelastic characterisation of pH-responsive chitosan hydrogels for targeted drug delivery

Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 211, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 644-650

  Jahren, Susannah L ^a,c   Butler, Michael F ^b   Adams, Sarah ^b   Cameron, Ruth E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNILEVER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c SINTEF   (Norway)

Author keywords

Chitosan; Genipin; Stimuli sensitive polymers; Swelling; Viscoelastic properties

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERISATION; CHITOSAN HYDROGEL; CROSS LINKING AGENTS; CROSS-LINK DENSITIES; CROSSLINKED; DEGREE OF CROSSLINKING; ELASTIC CHARACTERISTIC; GENIPIN; GLUTARALDEHYDES; MATRIX; NATURALLY OCCURRING; PH-DEPENDENT; PH-RESPONSIVE; STIMULI-SENSITIVE POLYMERS; SWELLING BEHAVIOUR; TARGETED DRUG DELIVERY; VISCOELASTIC PROPERTIES;

ALDEHYDES; CHITIN; CHITOSAN; DRUG DELIVERY; GELS; HYDROGELS; POLYMERS; VISCOELASTICITY;

SWELLING;

EID: 77949860285     PISSN: 10221352     EISSN: 15213935     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/macp.200900560     Document Type: Article

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