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Hamed Salimi-Kenari

Hamed Salimi-Kenari

Academic rank: Assistant Professor
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Education: PhD.
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Faculty: Faculty of Technology and Engineering
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Phone: 01135305105

Research

Title
Purification assay to prepared ultrapure carboxymethyl-chitosan
Type
JournalPaper
Keywords
Biopolymer; Carboxymethyl chitosan; Purification; Characterizations; Thermal analysis
Year
2017
Journal Journal of Macromolecular Science - Pure and Applied Chemistry
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Researchers Zeinab Sadat Sheikholeslami ، Mohammad Imani ، Mohammad Atai ، Azizollah Nodehi ، Hamed Salimi-Kenari

Abstract

Carboxymethyl Chitosan (CMCh) is a semi-synthetic derivative of chitosan (a natural biopolymer) with increasing biomedical applications as a matrix or scaffold material for tissue engineering applications. Since, the presence of impurities can cause immunological reactions in vivo where ultimately pure materials are needed. To this end, purity of commercial-grade CMCh samples was investigated here along with their purification by a solvent/nonsolvent technique. The resulting polymer was characterized by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), thermal gravimetric analysis (TGA), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX) to confirm the validity of the purification process.