Synthesis and characterization of carboxymethyl starch-g-polyacrylic acids and their properties as adsorbents for ammonia and phenol.

Cigarette smoke contains a lot of harmful chemicals which cause different diseases like cancer, heart disease, bronchitis and ulcer etc. Ammonia and phenol are among those chemicals which cause cancer, fibrosis, respiratory disorder and pneumonia. So, to remove ammonia and phenol from cigarette smoke, five different types of carboxymethyl starch-g-polyacrylic acids (CMS-g-PAAs) were synthesized by using different initiators, different mole ratio of acrylic acid to CMS anhydroglucose unit (AGU) and different amount of water.

Advances in chemical modifications of starches and their applications.

Starch is a homopolysaccharide made up of glucose units which are linked together via a glycosidic linkage. This biopolymer is well known for its low cost, biodegradability, renewability and easy availability. In spite of all these beauties, starch has some problems with their solubility in water, retrogradation, loss of viscosity due to rupturing of glucosidic bond when subjected to treatment and absence of some groups of primary importance like different functional groups especially carboxylic group, ester group, ether group and amino group.

Synthesis of hydrogel-bearing phenylboronic acid moieties and their applications in glucose sensing and insulin delivery.

In past few years, phenylboronic acids (PBAs) have attracted researcher's attention due to their unique responsiveness towards diol-containing molecules such as glucose. This property allows hydrogel-bearing PBAs potentially to serve as an alternative for glucose-sensing and insulin-delivery systems. This review provides an outlook on the binding mechanism of PBA moieties with diols and the approaches to increase their binding selectivity and response for glucose molecules.

Synthesis of carboxymethyl starch-g-polyvinylpyrolidones and their properties for the adsorption of Rhodamine 6G and ammonia.

Carboxymethyl starch-g-polyvinylpyrolidones (CMS-g-PVPs) were prepared by grafting of carboxymethyl starch (CMS) with N-vinylpyrolidone (NVP) using different initiators. The grafting percentage of all the modified starches was determined and the modified starch (CMS-g-PVP-5) with maximum grafting percentage was characterized by elemental analysis, H NMR and FT-IR spectroscopy. Crystallinity and thermal properties of CMS-g-PVP-5 were analysed by XRD and TGA, respectively.