Volume 13, Issue 4, December 2015, Pages 834–838
A. Khalifa1, Y. A. Aggour2, and EM Abdel‐Bary3
1 Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Damietta University, New Damietta, Damietta, Egypt
2 Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Damietta University, New Damietta, Damietta, Egypt
3 Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt
Original language: English
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Polymers and polymeric composites have steadily reflected their importance in our daily life. Blending poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) with a potentially useful natural biopolymers such as carboxymethyl Cellulose (CMC) seems to be an interesting way of preparing a polymeric blends. The aim of the work is to blend PVA/CMC of compositions (100/0, 80/20, 60/40, 50/50, 40/60, 20/80, and 0/100 wt/wt%) were prepared to be used as bioequivalent materials. The blend have been Characterised by Fourier transform infra-red spectroscopy and swelling ratio. The obtained results showed variations in the FTIR spectra indicating the miscibility of the blend systems. More over the results showes improved swelling properties than the poly vinyl alcohol homopolymer.
Author Keywords: Poly(Vinyl Alcohol) (PVA), Carboxymethyl Cellulose (CMC), Biodegradable polymer, Swelling, Blends, Bioequivalent materials, Solution casting, Fourier transform infra-red spectroscopy, polysaccharide.
A. Khalifa1, Y. A. Aggour2, and EM Abdel‐Bary3
1 Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Damietta University, New Damietta, Damietta, Egypt
2 Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Damietta University, New Damietta, Damietta, Egypt
3 Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt
Original language: English
Copyright © 2015 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Polymers and polymeric composites have steadily reflected their importance in our daily life. Blending poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) with a potentially useful natural biopolymers such as carboxymethyl Cellulose (CMC) seems to be an interesting way of preparing a polymeric blends. The aim of the work is to blend PVA/CMC of compositions (100/0, 80/20, 60/40, 50/50, 40/60, 20/80, and 0/100 wt/wt%) were prepared to be used as bioequivalent materials. The blend have been Characterised by Fourier transform infra-red spectroscopy and swelling ratio. The obtained results showed variations in the FTIR spectra indicating the miscibility of the blend systems. More over the results showes improved swelling properties than the poly vinyl alcohol homopolymer.
Author Keywords: Poly(Vinyl Alcohol) (PVA), Carboxymethyl Cellulose (CMC), Biodegradable polymer, Swelling, Blends, Bioequivalent materials, Solution casting, Fourier transform infra-red spectroscopy, polysaccharide.
How to Cite this Article
A. Khalifa, Y. A. Aggour, and EM Abdel‐Bary, “Swelling and FTIR studies on poly vinyl alcohol / carboxymethyl cellelouse blend films,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 834–838, December 2015.
