A review of the chemical modification techniques of starch

N Masina, YE Choonara, P Kumar, LC du Toit… - Carbohydrate …, 2017 - Elsevier
Starch is a naturally occurring storage copolymer with unique physicochemical properties.
There are, however, some key structural properties of starch that can be modified in order to …

A review on synthesis, properties and applications of natural polymer based carrageenan blends and composites

KM Zia, S Tabasum, M Nasif, N Sultan, N Aslam… - International journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Carrageenan is a natural polysaccharide extracted from edible red seaweeds of
Rhodophycea class. It has been used as a viscosity increasing or gelling agent for …

A review: Interaction of starch/non-starch hydrocolloid blending and the recent food applications

K Mahmood, H Kamilah, PL Shang, S Sulaiman… - Food Bioscience, 2017 - Elsevier
Starch is one of the most abundant polysaccharides mainly obtained from cereals and
tubers. It has been used since ages in food applications as thickening, binding, sweetening …

Physicochemical properties, in-vitro digestibility and structural elucidation of RS4 from rice starch

BA Ashwar, A Gani, A Shah, FA Masoodi - International journal of biological …, 2017 - Elsevier
Starches extracted from four different rice cultivars were phosphorylated by using
STMP/STPP to make modified food starches with high contents of type 4 resistant starch …

Biodegradable-stimuli sensitive xanthan gum based hydrogel: evaluation of antibacterial activity and controlled agro-chemical release

BS Kaith, R Jindal, M Kumari, M Kaur - Reactive and Functional …, 2017 - Elsevier
Biodegradable hydrogel based on xanthan gum graft co-polymerized with polyacrylic acid
was fabricated by free radical polymerization in presence of microwave radiations and its …

Competitive removal of Cu (II) and Cd (II) from water using a biocomposite hydrogel

J Maity, SK Ray - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2017 - ACS Publications
With an objective to improve the adsorption properties of a synthetic hydrogel, potato starch
(PS) was incorporated in the ter-copolymer (TP) of acrylic acid (AA), acrylamide (AM), and …

Chemical modification of xanthan in the ordered and disordered states: An open route for tuning the physico-chemical properties

C Fantou, AN Roy, E Dé, S Comesse, M Grisel… - Carbohydrate …, 2017 - Elsevier
The impact of the chain stiffness on physicochemical properties has been studied by
chemical modification of xanthan under both ordered and disordered conformations …

Polysaccharide hydrogels for controlled release of acyclovir: development, characterization and in vitro evaluation studies

NS Malik, M Ahmad, MU Minhas, G Murtaza, Q Khalid - Polymer Bulletin, 2017 - Springer
This work presented the development of new cross-linked xanthan gum based
biodegradable polymeric system, characterization of their properties and investigation in its …

Xanthan gum a versatile biopolymer: current status and future prospectus in hydro gel drug delivery

VS Verma, K Sakure, HR Badwaik - Current Chemical Biology, 2017 - ingentaconnect.com
Commercially available, most important microbial polysaccharide is xanthan gum. In many
pharmaceutical products and cosmetics, xanthan gum has been widely used as emulsifying …

Enhanced electro-responsive behaviors of agar/xanthan gum interpenetrating compound hydrogel

L Gao, W Dai, J Chen, Z Xie, X Yue - Soft Materials, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The agar/xanthan gum compound hydrogels were synthesized with/without a direct current
(DC) electric field, and their behaviors and structure were investigated by dynamic …