Hydroxyl-functionalized polymers using characterization

Carbohydrates are characterized by the presence of polyhydroxylic aldehyde or poly-hydroxylic ketone structures or polymers of such units. Sugars and polysaccharides have definite three-dimensional structures that are important for many biological functions. They are hydrophilic and thus easily accessible to aqueous reaction mediums. The chemistry of bioconjugation using carbohydrate molecules begins with an understanding of the building blocks of polysaccharide molecules. 

Alternatively, hydrophilic multi-hydroxyl poly(GMA-OH)-grafted MWCNTs could be converted into multicarboxyl polymer-functionalized CNTs by reaction with succinic anhydride and then used as templates to efficiently sequestrate metal ions such as Ag", Co ", Ni , Au , La and (Scheme 5.3), generating MWCNT-polymer/metal hybrid nanocomposites, nanowires or necklace-like nanostructures, depending on the grafted polymer content and the nature of the captured metals. The combination of SEM, TEM and energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) characterizations demonstrated the structure and elements of the hybrid nano-objects. 

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