Evaluation of mechanical properties of unsaturated polyester-guar gum/hydroxypropyl guar gum composites

Thermal Degradation of Guar Gum

Information about the thermal degradation of guar gum has been obtained from the time dependence of the viscosity at high temperatures measured using a slit viscometer. The viscosity is related to the molecular weight using previously published relations between the zero shear specific viscosity and the coil overlap parameter in conjunction with the appropriate Mark-Houwink equation. Unlike ani...

Carboxymethylation of Guar Gum: Synthesis and Characterization

Recent studies focus on the chemical modification of polysaccharides for biomedical applications. Guar gum is a natural polymer composed of linear chains of (1-4)-β-D mannopyranosyl units with α-Dgalactopyranosyl units attached by (1-6) linkages, in a ratio of about 1.5-2, possessing hydroxyl groups available for the attachment of biologically active compounds. The modifications here discussed ...

Guar and Guar Derivatives

Mechanical Properties of Unsaturated Polyester Resin

Mechanical behaviour of unsaturated polyester resin used for the composite materials has been studied to determine various important parameters, such as tensile and compressive, single edge-notch tensile fracture toughness, flexural properties and fracture energy. Fracture toughness, KIC, and fracture energy, GIC, obtained for the polyester resin lie between the typical values for epoxy resins ...

Cationic guar gum polyelectrolyte complex micro particles

Aim: The aim of this study was to organize polyelectrolyte complex microparticles (PECMP) of cationic guar gum and xanthan gum. Materials and Methods: The complex formed was loaded with diclofenac sodium (DS) as a model drug. The prepared microparticles were characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), differential scanning colorimetry (DSC), scanning electron microscopy (S...