Properties of Polysaccharide Graft Copolymers

Graft copolymerization is the technique that can be used to incorporate desired physical, chemical and mechanical properties in polysaccharides. Moreover, it assists in getting the morphological changes in the end-products. 

Swelling of graft copolymers in different solvents depends on the chemical nature of the solvents. Water affects the changes in the hydrogen bonding of 

Certain crosslinked graft copolymers of polysaccharides are found to exhibit salt resistant swelling in different concentrations of salts. Swelling decreases with increase in salt concentration and is found to be cationic charge dependent. Depending upon the cations, swelling is found to follow the order Na NH/ Mg 2 Ca Ba 2 Fe 3 

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