Polysaccharides are a natural and renewable feed stock for synthesizing high performance macromolecular materials. A popular, versatile and convenient route to develop polysaccharide based materials is the grafting of synthetic polymers onto natural polysaccharides. In spite of the attractive chemical and physical properties of polysaccharide based copolymeric materials, undesired homopolymer formation in the concurrent competing reaction lowers the copolymer yield, posing problems in the commercialization of the grafting procedures. Moreover, the requirement for an inert atmosphere is an added disadvantage for many conventional grafting procedures. The use of microwave irradiation has been exploited in the past two decades to alleviate these limitations in the synthesis of a range of graft modified polysaccharide materials. Indeed, increasing interest in clean and green environment friendly chemistry has motivated the use of microwaves in the polysaccharide grafting modification for various applications. Microwave irradiation significantly reduces the use of toxic solvents, as well as the reaction time for almost all the grafting reactions of interest here, ensuring high yields, product selectivity and clean product formations. Moreover, in many instances, microwave synthesized polysaccharide copolymers exhibit better properties for commercial exploitation than their conventionally synthesized counterparts. This review highlights recent applications of microwave heating in the grafting modifications of polysaccharides and discusses the underlying mechanisms and issues. 相似文献
Gum polysaccharides are one of the most abundant bio‐based polymers. They are generally derived from plants as exudates or from microorganisms and have diverse applications in many industries, especially in the food industries where they are used as emulsifiers and thickeners. In their natural form, gum polysaccharides have poor mechanical and physical properties; therefore, they are frequently modified with various synthetic monomers such as acrylamide and acrylic acid using graft copolymerization. Graft copolymerization is one of the most trusted and widely used synthetic methods for the modification of gum polysaccharides. Gum polysaccharides modified in this way have improved mechanical and physicochemical properties. Furthermore, gum polysaccharides contain a variety of functional groups, for example, carboxylic acid and hydroxyl groups; therefore, they have been used extensively as adsorbents for the removal of different impurities from wastewater such as toxic heavy metal cations and synthetic dyes. Here, the chemical and physical properties of gum polysaccharides, different methods of graft copolymerization, and the use of graft copolymer gum‐polysaccharide‐based hydrogels are reviewed in detail for the removal of toxic heavy metal cations and synthetic dyes from aqueous solutions.
Graft copolymer of N-vinyl-2-pyrrolidone and tamarind seed polysaccharide was prepared using microwave assisted graft copolymerization and evaluated for mucoadhesive applications. Graft copolymerization was optimized using response surface methodology employing microwave power and exposure time as the independent variables, and grafting efficiency as the response variable. The buccal patches of metronidazole formulated using the graft copolymer showed ex vivo bioadhesion time of 9.3 h with >80% of the drug getting released while the buccal patches formulated using tamarind seed polysaccharide showed ex vivo bioadhesion time of 5 h releasing only 50% of the drug. 相似文献
Many of the synthetic corrosion inhibitors being used currently, are toxic and therefore research for developing environmentally benign corrosion inhibitors is of great importance. Inhibitors such as natural polysaccharides of plant origin are popular due to its non-toxic nature. Here, the toxicity of a natural polysaccharide, guar gum, and its modified form, cationic guar gum was studied and their inhibitory effects were investigated by gravimetric, electrochemical and surface morphology studies. Both the inhibitors are found to be effective and their adsorption on metal is in accordance with the Langmuir adsorption isotherm. Experimental results are in consonance with the results of quantum chemical calculations by density functional theory. 相似文献