Measurement of the molecular weight distribution of debranched starch.

abstract：:Six methyl celluloses (MCs), one with a degree of substitution (DS) of 1.32 and five with DS between 1.83 and 1.88, were thoroughly investigated. Monomer composition and methyl distribution in the polymer chain were analyzed after total or partial random hydrolysis and appropriate derivatization with gas chromatograph...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Adden R,Melander C,Brinkmalm G,Gorton L,Mischnick P

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coniferyl alcohol was polymerized in pectin solution in order to mimic the lignification that is the final step of biosynthesis of plant cell wall. Dehydrogenated polymers (DHP = coniferyl alcohol polymers = synthetic lignin) interact with pectin to form hydrophobic clusters as monitored by pyrene fluorescence spectro...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Lairez D,Cathala B,Monties B,Bedos-Belval F,Duran H,Gorrichon L

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a biomaterial, silk presents unique features with a combination of excellent mechanical properties, biocompatibility, and biodegradability. The biodegradability aspects of silk biomaterials, especially with options to control the rate from short (days) to long (years) time frames in vivo, make this protein-based bi...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Guo C,Li C,Kaplan DL

更新日期：2020-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Super-resolution fluorescence microscopy, specifically stochastic reconstruction microscopy (STORM), and atomic force microscopy (AFM) were used to image the self-assembly processes of the peptide surfactant I3K. The peptide surfactants self-assembled into giant helical fibrils with diameters between 5 and 10 nm with ...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Cox H,Georgiades P,Xu H,Waigh TA,Lu JR

更新日期：2017-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The photoluminescence features of Eu(3+)-, Tb(3+)-, Tb(3+)/Eu(3+)-alginate aerogel (hydrogel and alcogel) and Eu(3+)-alginate xerogel hybrids were investigated. The Eu(3+)-alginate aerogel and alcogel exhibit the highest (5)D0 quantum efficiencies (9.9 and 8.2%, respectively), while the hydrogel and xerogel have lower...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Liu F,Carlos LD,Ferreira RA,Rocha J,Gaudino MC,Robitzer M,Quignard F

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multicomponent poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) brushes (i.e., ≥ 2 adjacent PEG brushes) can be used to engineer culture substrates with microscale, nonfouling regions decorated with covalently immobilized ligands that mediate biospecific interactions. However, synthesizing such brushes with orthogonal immobilization chemi...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Sha J,Lippmann ES,McNulty J,Ma Y,Ashton RS

更新日期：2013-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Selectively spooling single plasmid DNA (pDNA), as a giant polyelectrolyte, into a nanosized toroidal structure or folding it into a rod-like structure has been accomplished by polyion complexation with block catiomers to form polymeric micelles in varying NaCl concentrations. The interactive potency between the pDNA ...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Li Y,Osada K,Chen Q,Tockary TA,Dirisala A,Takeda KM,Uchida S,Nagata K,Itaka K,Kataoka K

更新日期：2015-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we present time-resolved in situ transmission electron microscopy (TEM) observations and real-time manipulation of nematic ordered cellulose and ultradrawn polyethylene films. Drawn films of these two polymers exhibited a unique response to the low-dose electron beam. Electron beam damage was minimal based on ret...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Brown RM Jr,Barnes Z,Sawatari C,Kondo T

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthesis, characterization, and degradation kinetics of three alpha-cyclodextrin (alpha-CD)-poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) polyrotaxanes with endcaps that were installed using Cu(I)-catalyzed Huisgen cyclization is reported. PEG1500, azidated with azidoacetic acid, was threaded with alpha-CD to form a pseudopolyrota...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Loethen S,Ooya T,Choi HS,Yui N,Thompson DH

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poly(butylene adipate-co-terephthalate) (PBAT) was first chemically modified via free radical grafting with maleic anhydride (MA) and the MA-g-PBAT graft copolymer was then used as a matrix material to obtain cellulose nanocrystal (CNC)-reinforced MA-g-PBAT bionanocomposites via reactive extrusion process to accelerat...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Kashani Rahimi S,Aeinehvand R,Kim K,Otaigbe JU

更新日期：2017-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Alditol bearing chitosans have shown the ability to reduce silver ions in mild conditions and without addition of exogenous reducing agents. The ion reduction induces the formation of a lactone moiety on the polysaccharide (Fetizon reaction) without causing C-C bond cleavage on the polyol. The close and multivalent ar...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Donati I,Travan A,Pelillo C,Scarpa T,Coslovi A,Bonifacio A,Sergo V,Paoletti S

更新日期：2009-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Controlling self-assembly is critical to the advancement of nanotechnology. A rugged or crenated assembly energy surface can redirect assembly off path. By using a defined starting point and an energy surface made rough by a strong association energy, we can impose entirely new assembly paths and products. Normally, t...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Burns K,Mukherjee S,Keef T,Johnson JM,Zlotnick A

更新日期：2010-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:It is recognized that topographical features such as ridges and grooves can dramatically influence cell phenotype, motivating the development of substrates with precisely biomimetic topography for study of the influence on cultured cells. Intestinal basement membrane topography has been precisely replicated using plas...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Pfluger CA,Burkey DD,Wang L,Sun B,Ziemer KS,Carrier RL

更新日期：2010-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanocellulose-based self-standing films are becoming a substrate for flexible electronics, diagnostics, and sensors. Strength and surface chemistry are vital variables for these film-based endeavors, the former is one of the assets of nanocellulose. To contribute to the latter, nanocellulose films are tuned with a sid...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Nypelö T,Amer H,Konnerth J,Potthast A,Rosenau T

更新日期：2018-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Modular proteins have emerged as powerful tools in tissue engineering because both the mechanical and biochemical properties can be precisely controlled through amino acid sequence. Resilin is an attractive candidate for use in modular proteins because it is well-known for having low stiffness, high fatigue lifetime, ...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Renner JN,Cherry KM,Su RS,Liu JC

更新日期：2012-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The storage and transport of cells is a fundamental technology which underpins cell biology, biomaterials research, and emerging cell-based therapies. Inspired by antifreeze and ice-binding proteins in extremophiles, macromolecular (polymer) cryoprotectants are emerging as exciting biomaterials to enable the reduction...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Murray KA,Gibson MI

更新日期：2020-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:This work reports on the effect of CO2 at subcritical conditions and the gaseous state on the telechelic poly(epsilon-caprolactone) polymers. The tested polymers are semi-crystalline in nature and thus the effect of functional groups and their overall contribution to foaming and formation of microstructures with open-...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Nawaby AV,Farah AA,Liao X,Pietro WJ,Day M

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major challenge in drug delivery is the internalization through the apical plasma membrane of the polarized epithelial cells lining organs facing the external environment, e.g., lungs and the gastrointestinal tract. The reduced permeation of drugs entering through this pathway is in part due to the mucosal barrier a...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Harush-Frenkel O,Rozentur E,Benita S,Altschuler Y

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel approach for the preparation of nano- and microcapsules in aqueous solutions by using thermoresponsive polymer (TRP) templates (mesoglobules) is described. The method comprised three steps: formation of mesoglobules, coating the templates by seeded radical copolymerization, followed by core dissolution and cor...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Haladjova E,Toncheva-Moncheva N,Apostolova MD,Trzebicka B,Dworak A,Petrov P,Dimitrov I,Rangelov S,Tsvetanov CB

更新日期：2014-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Cationic derivatives of cellulose and other polysaccharides are attractive targets for biomedical applications due to their propensity for electrostatically binding with anionic biomolecules, such as nucleic acids and certain proteins. To date, however, relatively few practical synthetic methods have been described fo...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Liu S,Liu J,Esker AR,Edgar KJ

更新日期：2016-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:This study describes the first use of laccase-lipase enzymatic reaction for the synthesis of novel perfectly structured alternating copolymers. Initially, six types of complexing agents, linear(A)-linear(B), linear(A)-linear(B)-linear(A), linear-dendritic, dendritic-linear-dendritic, linear-hyperbranched, and hyperbra...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Scheibel DM,Gitsov I

更新日期：2019-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The dynamics of silk protein in the presence and absence of water has been investigated by dielectric relaxation spectroscopy (DRS). The silk fibroin film cast from its water solution contains 4-7 wt % bound water molecules, which can be removed by dehydration at 165 °C. Temperature and frequency scans were performed ...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Yu L,Hu X,Kaplan D,Cebe P

更新日期：2010-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) is a pseudo-one-dimensional nanostructure capable of carrying/displaying a large number of bioactive molecules and species in aqueous solution. In this work, a series of dendritic beta-D-galactopyranosides and alpha-D-mannopyranosides with a terminal amino group were synthesized an...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Gu L,Luo PG,Wang H,Meziani MJ,Lin Y,Veca LM,Cao L,Lu F,Wang X,Quinn RA,Wang W,Zhang P,Lacher S,Sun YP

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The manufacture of biodegradable materials from agricultural sources is a real challenge, because of environmental concerns and the need to make full use of resources. Cottonseed is an important protein source that could be used in nonfood applications, as a substitute for synthetic polymers. For the first time, the v...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Grevellec J,Marquié C,Ferry L,Crespy A,Vialettes V

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a distinct need for antimicrobial compounds that can act at surfaces without leaching into the environment. Such materials should be easy to synthesize, be easy to apply to surfaces, and display reasonable levels of antimicrobial and antifungal activity. Here we describe such a surface-active compound and dem...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Ravikumar T,Murata H,Koepsel RR,Russell AJ

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Textile chitosan fiber scaffolds were developed and tested in terms of biocompatibility for human bone marrow stromal cells (hBMSCs). A part of the scaffolds was further modified by coating with fibrillar collagen type I in order to biologize the surface. hBMSCs of two donors were used for cell culture experiments in ...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Heinemann C,Heinemann S,Lode A,Bernhardt A,Worch H,Hanke T

更新日期：2009-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:As a result of improved relevance to in vivo physiology, in vitro studies are increasingly performed in diverse, three-dimensional (3D) biomaterials. However, material-cell type pairing effects on cytokine availability remain unclear. We cultured five cell types in agarose, alginate, collagen, Matrigel, or RGD-functio...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Regier MC,Montanez-Sauri SI,Schwartz MP,Murphy WL,Beebe DJ,Sung KE

更新日期：2017-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The intermolecular interactions of lignin with a hydrophilic polymer, poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA), were studied using thermal analyses and FT-IR spectroscopy of a series of PVA/hardwood kraft lignin blend fibers prepared by thermal extrusion. Although two phases are observed in this blend system, some of the lignin was ...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Kubo S,Kadla JF

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bioresponsive polymers can enable the development of more effective drug delivery vehicles and medical materials. Acetal-modified polysaccharides allow pH-triggered solubility switching in a versatile and effective manner, but prior work has been limited to a combination of acyclic alkoxyisopropyl and cyclic isopropyl...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Graham ET,Broaders KE

更新日期：2019-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Spider dragline silk with its superlative tensile properties provides an ideal system to study the relationship between morphology and mechanical properties of a structural protein. Accordingly, we synthesized two hybrid multiblock copolymers by condensing poly(alanine) [(Ala)(5)] blocks of the structural proteins (sp...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Zhou C,Leng B,Yao J,Qian J,Chen X,Zhou P,Knight DP,Shao Z

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00