Colloidal nanoparticles of sodium polygalacturonate prepared by nanoprecipitation.

Polygalacturonic acid (PGA), being the backbone of pectins, governs their aggregation that is widely applied in industry. The PGA aggregation was studied by dynamic and static light scattering within a limited space of sodium polygalacturonate nanoparticles obtained by nanoprecipitation (drop-wise addition of alkaline solution of PGA to an ethanol bath). With increasing buffer's pH from 4.

Smart colloids containing ensembles of gold nanoparticles conjugated with κ-carrageenan.

We study colloids of nanobiocomposites (NBC) containing Au nanoparticles (NP) obtained by reduction of gold precursor with functional groups of κCAR. The AuNPs content was changed from 2.0 to 5.

Association of κ-carrageenan subjected to deep alkaline hydrolysis.

κ-carrageenan is a linear sulfated anionic gelling polysaccharide obtained from red seaweed algae by an alkaline hydrolysis. We applied static and dynamic light scattering (DLS), capillary viscometry, FT-IR, and electrophoretic DLS to gain insight into the effect of deep alkaline hydrolysis (95 °C, pH = 10 during T = 60, 75, and 90 min) on κ-carrageenan macromolecules in a coil conformation. As DLS of coil-like κ-carrageenans is usually complicated by spurious permanent aggregates, the alkaline hydrolysis of κ-carrageenans has not been studied by DLS.

Chiroplasmonic magnetic gold nanocomposites produced by one-step aqueous method using κ-carrageenan.

Novel water-soluble chiroplasmonic nanobiocomposites with directly varied gold content were synthesized by a one-step redox method in water using a biocompatible polysaccharide κ-carrageenan (industrial product from algae) as both reducing and stabilizing matrix. The influence of the reactants ratio, temperature, and pH on the reaction was studied and the optimal reaction parameters were found. The structure and the properties of composite nanomaterials were examined in solid state and aqueous solutions by using complementary physical-chemical methods X-ray diffraction analysis, transmission electron microscopy, spectroscopy of electron paramagnetic resonance, atomic absorption and optical spectroscopy, polarimetry including optical rotatory dispersion with registration of interphase-crossbred Cotton effect of a chiral polysaccharide matrix on plasmonic chromophore of gold nanoparticles, dynamic and static light scattering.

Colloidal aggregates of Pd nanoparticles supported by larch arabinogalactan.

Palladium nanoparticles (PdNPs) are used in catalysis, hydrogen storage, biomedicine, and so on. Arranging the self-assembly of PdNPs within colloidal aggregates is desirable for improving their consumer properties. Stable widely dispersed colloidal aggregates of larch arabinogalactan (LARB) containing nanosized (5-nm) PdNPs were obtained by reducing Pd ions in alkaline solutions of LARB.

Light scattering from aqueous solutions of colloid metal nanoparticles stabilized by natural polysaccharide arabinogalactan.

Colloids of metal nanoparticles (NPs) of Au, Ag, Pd, and Pt protected by natural polymer arabinogalactan (ARB) extracted from Larix sibirica were studied. The nanocomposites were prepared by reduction of metal salts in the water solutions of ARB. We carried out dynamic (DLS) and static light scattering resonantly enhanced by the NP plasmons.