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Characterization of Chitosan and Polyethylene glycol Blend Film

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Physical chemistry

Abstract

In this work, chitosan-polyethylene glycol (Cs/PEG) blend films with different mass ratios have been synthesized utilizing simple blending and casting technique. Molecular structure, electronic transitions and surface morphology of the developed blends have been inspected utilizing a series of Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, ultraviolet-visible (UV-Vis) spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Moreover, both of the microhardness and swelling ability of the blends with different mass ratios have been evaluated. Both of UV-Vis and FTIR results postulates the presence of a distinct sort of interaction between both of chitosan (Cs) and polyethylene glycol (PEG) which could emanate from the newly formed intermolecular hydrogen bonds between Cs and PEG. It was also found that increasing PEG mass ratio in the blend results in increasing the value of the direct bandgap. SEM micrographs of the blend revealed changing the surface morphology of chitosan after the addition of PEG.

DOI

10.21608/ejchem.2019.11668.1743

Keywords

Chitosan, polyethylene glycol, band gap, hardness, swelling

Authors

First Name

Afaf

Last Name

Sarhan

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Affiliation

Polymer Research Group, Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt

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afafsarhan@mans.edu.eg

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0000-0002-2892-6740

Volume

62

Article Issue

Special Issue (Part 2) Innovation in Chemistry

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10565

Issue Date

2019-12-01

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2019-04-07

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2019-12-01

Page Start

405

Page End

412

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0449-2285

Online ISSN

2357-0245

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297

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Egyptian Journal of Chemistry

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/

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Characterization of Chitosan and Polyethylene glycol Blend Film

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22 Jan 2023