Porous amphiphilic biogel from a facile chemo-biosynthetic route
Grafting of medium-chain-length poly-3-hydroxyalkanoates (mcl-PHA) with glycerol 1,3-diglycerolate diacrylate (GDD) in acetone was performed using benzoyl peroxide as the initiator. A detailed mechanism scheme provides significant improvement to previous literature. Radical-mediated grafting generat...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English English |
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Serbian Chemical Society
2020
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/82694/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/82694/1/82694_Porous%20amphiphilic%20biogel%20from%20a%20facile%20chemo-biosynthetic%20route_ft.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/82694/2/82694_Porous%20amphiphilic%20biogel%20from%20a%20facile%20chemo-biosynthetic%20route_scopus.pdf |
| Summary: | Grafting of medium-chain-length poly-3-hydroxyalkanoates (mcl-PHA) with glycerol 1,3-diglycerolate diacrylate (GDD) in acetone was performed using benzoyl peroxide as the initiator. A detailed mechanism scheme provides significant improvement to previous literature. Radical-mediated grafting generated α–β carbon inter-linking of mcl-PHA and GDD, resulting in a macromolecular structure with gel properties. The thermal properties of the copolymer for different graft yields were investigated as a function of initiator concentration, GDD monomer concentration, incubation period and temperature. The water absorption and porosity of the gel were significantly improved relative to neat mcl-PHA. |
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