2002年
Thermally reversible hydration of β-chitin
Biomacromolecules
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- 巻
- 3
- 号
- 3
- 開始ページ
- 407
- 終了ページ
- 410
- 記述言語
- 英語
- 掲載種別
- 研究論文(学術雑誌)
- DOI
- 10.1021/bm015646d
- 出版者・発行元
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
Thermally induced transition between anhydrous and hydrated forms of highly crystalline β-chitin was studied by differential thermal calorimetry (DSC) and X-ray diffraction. DSC of wet β-chitin in a sealed pan gave two well-defined endothermic peaks at 85.2 and 104.7 °C on heating and one broad exothermic peak at between 60 and 0 °C on cooling. These peaks were highly reproducible and became more distinct after repeated heating-cooling cycles. The X-ray diffraction pattern of wet β-chitin at elevated temperature showed corresponding changes in d-spacing between the sheets formed by stacking of chitin molecules. These phenomena clearly show that water is reversibly incorporated into the β-chitin crystal and that the temperature change induces transitions between anhydrous, monohydrate, and dihydrate forms. The DSC behavior in heating-cooling cycles, including reversion between the two endothermic peaks, indicated that the transition between monohydrate and dihydrate was a fast and narrow-temperature process, whereas the one between the anhydrous and the monohydrate form was a slow and wide-temperature process.
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- DOI : 10.1021/bm015646d
- ISSN : 1525-7797
- eISSN : 1526-4602
- PubMed ID : 12005507
- SCOPUS ID : 0036265276