Potential supporting materials from polysaccharide (aero)gels

Kurzfassung

Variety of approaches for the production and product design of polysaccharide aerogels will be presented. Aerogels of polysaccharides are one of the classes of light-weight open porous materials. Unlike other classical aerogels, they have randomly interconnected nanofibrillar networks and a wide range of pore sizes ranging from 2 to 1000 nm. Aerogels of cellulose, chitin, chitosan, alginate, pectin and carrageenan are of great interests in our studies [1-6]. We have designed the products physically in order to improve the transport of guest atoms or molecules. The products were also chemically modified in order to functionalize the surface adsorbing properties. These product designs can match the requirements for specific applications such as template or supporting materials for bio-composites preparation, separation and purification techniques and tissue engineering. References [1] K. Ganesan, A. Barowski and L. Ratke, Molecules, 2019, 24, 2688. [2] K. Ganesan, A. Barowski, L. Ratke and B. Milow, J. Sol-Gel Sci. Technol., 2019, 89, 156-165. [3] K. Ganesan, T. Budtova, L. Ratke, P. Gurikov, V. Baudron, I. Preibisch, P. Niemeyer, I. Smirnova and B. Milow, Materials, 2018, 11, 2144. [4] K. Ganesan, M. Heyer, L. Ratke and B. Milow, Chem. Eur. J., 2018, 24, 19332-19340. [5] K. Ganesan, A. Dennstedt, A. Barowski and L. Ratke, Mater. Design, 2016, 92, 345-355. [6] K. Ganesan and L. Ratke, Soft Matter, 2014, 10, 3218-3224.