Well-Defined Glycopolymer Chitosan Mimics for Design of Chitosan Nanocomposites.

ABSTRACT: Chitosan, a naturally derived polysaccharide with intriguing antimicrobial and polycationic properties, is highly desirable as a biosourced and biodegradable material for biomedical, food packaging, and personal care applications. Its inherent high levels of variability in molecular weight, dispersity, and degree of deacetylation, however, make the establishment of structure-property-processing relationships difficult and limit materials development. In this study, a novel methacrylate-based glycomonomer with saccharide structure similar to that of chitosan was synthesized and copolymerized with methyl methacrylate via reversible addition-fragmentation chain-transfer (RAFT) polymerization to create a series of well-defined chitosan mimics with controlled molecular weights and low dispersit

SUBMITTER: Edwards TR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12606564 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature