HYDRATION OF BIOPOLYMERS STUDIED BY DSC AND PERFUSION MICROCALORIMETRY

1 Krouská Jitka
Co-authors:
1 Šméralová Ester 1 Klučáková Martina
Institution:
1 Materials Research Centre, Faculty of Chemistry, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic, EU
Conference:
9th International Conference on Nanomaterials - Research & Application, Hotel Voronez I, Brno, Czech Republic, EU, October 18th - 20th 2017
Proceedings:
Proceedings 9th International Conference on Nanomaterials - Research & Application
Pages:
776-780
ISBN:
978-80-87294-81-9
ISSN:
2694-930X
Published:
8th March 2018
Proceedings of the conference were published in Web of Science and Scopus.
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Abstract

Hydration is one of the crucial properties for understanding the behavior of any chemical material. Due to the presence of hydrogen bonds together with hydrophobic and other types of intermolecular interactions water sorption influences the properties of the substances. Moreover, the importance of the absorbability is even higher when speaking about biopolymers which are somehow connected with hydrogels applications, potentially used in wound healing. The aim of this work was to study water sorption ability of selected biopolymers (dextran, chitosan, hyaluronan) and humic acid using two thermoanalytical techniques: differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and relative humidity (RH) perfusion microcalorimetry. These methods which are based on different measurement principle can give a complex overview on the sorption behavior of the sample. The results show expected differences of both temperature of melting and heat of hydration which are caused by many factors such as presence of side functional groups on the biopolymer chain, solubility of the studied biopolymers in water or molecular weight when speaking about hyaluronan.

Keywords: hydration, biopolymers, DSC, perfusion microcalorimetry

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