II. Moisture Permeability of Cellulose Derivatives and Syntheitc Resins

Effects of Weak and Strong Cation Exchange Resins on Moisture Uptake Behavior of Ranitidine Hydrochloride

     The aim of the present research was to study the effects of weak cation exchange resins, polacrilex with exchangeable H+ and polacrillin potassium and strong cation exchange resin sodium polystyrene sulfonate on water uptake behavior of ranitidine hydrochloride. Drug resin complexes (DRC) were prepared and evaluated for the percentage of moisture gain when placed in a humidity c...

Application of Cellulose and Cellulose Derivatives in Pharmaceutical Industries

Size Exclusion Chromatography of Cellulose and Cellulose Derivatives

Approximately 2 X 10 ton biomass is produced on land and in water annually (l). Cellulose is the principal structural material in the cell wall of all plants (2). In addition, cellulose can be found in algae, bacteria, and animals (tunicates). Assuming that the average source contains 50% cellulose (Table 1) (35), then approximately 1 X 10 ton cellulose is formed each year. This makes cellulose...

Functionalization of Cellulose: Synthesis of Water-soluble Cationic Cellulose Derivatives

One of the trends of modern cellulose chemistry is the functionalization of known cellulose derivatives in order to expand their application area. In this work, water-soluble cationic cellulose derivatives containing up to 4% coupled nitrogen were obtained by the amination of hydroxyethylcellulose (HEC) with two different etherification agents, diethylepoxypropylamine (DEEPA) and (2-chlorethyl)...

Dielectric Relaxation in Cellulose and its Derivatives

The relaxation processes in cellulose, methyl cellulose, hydroxypropyl cellulose, and hydroxypropylmethyl cellulose were studied by dielectric spectroscopy. The dielectric spectra for these polysaccharides were measured in the frequency range from 100 Hz to 1 MHz and in the temperature range from 100 to 450 K. The dielectric relaxation data for cellulose, methyl cellulose, hydroxypropylmethyl c...