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Self-assembled nanoparticles made of fucan

  • Dantas-Santos, N.; Almeida-Lima, J.; Vidal, A.A.J.; Pereira, Paula; Pedrosa, Sílvia S.; Gama, Miguel; Rocha, H.A.O.

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Amphiphilic polymers can self-assemble in water due to hydrophilic and hydrophobic interactions, forming nanoparticles (NPs) with unique physicochemical characteristics and thermodynamic stability. A non toxic sulfated Fucan, extracted from Spatoglossum schroederi was chemically modified by the grafting of Hexadecylamine (C16) to the polymer hydrophilic backbone. The resulting modified material (Fucan-C16) formed nanosized particles which were characterized by 1H NMR to assess the substitution degree of the hydrophobic chains, fluorescence spectroscopy to determine the critical aggregation con ...

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