Issue 38, 2009
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Journal of Materials Chemistry

Unique gel of xanthan gum with ionic liquid and its conversion into high performance hydrogel†‡

Hironori Izawa,a   Yoshiro Kanekoa  and  Jun-ichi Kadokawa*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Kagoshima University, 1-21-40 Korimoto, Kagoshima 890-0065, Japan
E-mail: kadokawa@eng.kagoshima-u.ac.jp

Abstract

An ionic liquid gel and a hydrogel of xanthan gum were prepared, the former showed a thermally induced shape-memory effect and the latter was further converted into an ionically cross-linked hydrogel with reversible swelling-shrinking behavior using Ca2+.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B916864H
Article type
Communication
Submitted
14 Aug 2009
Accepted
26 Aug 2009
First published
01 Sep 2009

J. Mater. Chem., 2009,19, 6969-6972

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Unique gel of xanthan gum with ionic liquid and its conversion into high performance hydrogel

H. Izawa, Y. Kaneko and J. Kadokawa, J. Mater. Chem., 2009, 19, 6969 DOI: 10.1039/B916864H

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