edited by
Magda A. El-Nokaly
and Helena A. Soini

Polysaccharides are carbohydrates used in a number of industrial applications, such as as thickeners, gellants, emulsifiers, and delivery systems of many commercial products. Research in the area is limited, however, and this book fills this gap, providing an up-to-date look at polysaccharide modifications, interactions with surfactants and micelles, stability, and characterization of polysaccharides.

Contents

1. Alginate Microparticles for Vaccine Delivery
2. Gene Delivery by Quaternary Chitosan with Antennary Galactose Residues
3. Drug-Cyclodextrin Complexation in the Presence of Water-Soluble Polymers: Enhanced Solubility and Percutaneous Transport
4. Preparation of Polyrotaxanes and Molecular Tubes for Host-Guest Systems
5. Cyclodextrin-Linked Chitosan: Synthesis and Inclusion Complexation Abilities
6. Preparation of Inclusion Foams from Chitin and PEG-Chitin for the Drug Delivery System
7. Polysaccharide Engineering: Silicified Microcrystalline Cellulose as a Novel High-Functionality Pharmaceutical Material
8. Synthesis and Characterization of Thermoreversible Sucrose Hydrogels (Sucrogels)
9. Investigations on Cellulose-Carbanilates and Cellulose-Carbanilate-Acetates in Dilute Solutions
10. Molten Inorganic Salt Hydrates as Cellulose Solvents
11. Cellulosic Liquid Crystals
12. Chitosan-Pluronic Physical Interpenetrating Network Membrane Fabrication and Protein Permeability Studies
13. Interactions between Cyclodextrins and a Mixed Cationic Cellulose Ether: Anionic Surfactant Gelling Systems
14. Interaction between Chitin Derivatives and Surfactants
15. Influence of Cationic Cellulose Structure on Interactions with Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate
16. Creaming and Rheology of Flocculated Emulsions
17. Building Aqueous Viscosity Through Synergistic Polymer--Polymer Interactions
18. Ultrasonic Techniques to Characterize Concentrated Colloidal Dispersions
19. Fluorescence Microscopy Study of the Sorption of Cationic Polymers on Hair
20. Small-Angle Neutron Scattering on Neutral and Cationic Guar Galactomannan
21. Applications of Gel Permeation Chromatography with Multi-Angle Light Scattering to the Characterization of Polysaccharides
22. Capillary Electrophoresis in Starch Analysis

Index

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