Chitosan Molecules Deposited from Supercritical Carbon Dioxide on a Substrate: Visualization and Conformational Analysis
✍ Scribed by Marat O. Gallyamov; Ivan S. Chaschin; Arif I. Gamzazade; Alexei R. Khokhlov
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 631 KB
- Volume
- 209
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1022-1352
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
We deposited single individual macromolecules of chitosan directly from their solutions in supercritical carbon dioxide onto a substrate surface and applied SFM method to analyze the macromolecular conformation. By means of image processing of many different SFM‐contours of the visualized individual macromolecules, we determined the scaling exponent ν, which describes the correlation between mean square end‐to‐end distances and contour lengths of the adsorbed macromolecules. It was revealed, that the macromolecules, deposited from scCO~2~ and visualized by SFM, tended to adopt rather extended conformation. The scaling exponent ν was found to be in range of 0.78–0.8, which was slightly above the 3/4 value, corresponding to 2D self‐avoiding walk statistics. Good adhesion of chitosan coatings directly deposited from scCO~2~ is expected.
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