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Abstract

Structural aspects of polysaccharide hydrogels based on sodium alginate and divalent cations Ba2+, Ca2+, Sr2+, Cu2+, Zn2+, Ni2+ and Mn2+ was studied using data on hydrogel elemental composition and combinatorial analysis of the primary structure of alginate chains. It was shown that the elemental composition of hydrogels in the form of freezing dried microspheres gives information on the structure of junction zones in the polysaccharide hydrogel network, the degree of filling of egg-box cells by cations, the type and magnitude of the interaction of cations with alginate chains, the most preferred types of alginate egg-box cells for cation binding and the nature of alginate dimers binding in junction zones. It was ascertained that metal–alginate complexes have more complicated organization than was previously desired. It was revealed that in metal–alginate hydrogels, the number of cations of various metals per C12 block may be less than the limiting theoretical value equal to 1 for completely filled cells. In the case of alkaline earth metals and zinc, this number is equal to 0.3 for calcium, 0.6 for barium and zinc and 0.65–0.7 for strontium. We have determined that in the presence of transition metals copper, nickel and manganese, a structure similar to an egg-box is formed with completely filled cells. It was determined that in nickel–alginate and copper–alginate microspheres, the cross-linking of alginate chains and formation of ordered egg-box structures with completely filled cells are carried out by hydrated metal complexes with complicated composition. It was found that an additional characteristic of complex formation with manganese cations is the partial destruction of alginate chains. It has been established that the existence of unequal binding sites of metal ions with alginate chains can lead to the appearance of ordered secondary structures due to the physical sorption of metal ions and their compounds from the environment. It was shown that hydrogels based on calcium alginate are most promising for absorbent engineering in environmental and other modern technologies.

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Title
Ion-Induced Polysaccharide Gelation: Peculiarities of Alginate Egg-Box Association with Different Divalent Cations
Author
Makarova, Anastasiya O 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Derkach, Svetlana R 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Khair, Tahar 3 ; Kazantseva, Mariia A 4 ; Zuev, Yuriy F 5   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Zueva, Olga S 3   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

 Kazan Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, FRC Kazan Scientific Center of RAS, Lobachevsky St., 2/31, 420111 Kazan, Russia 
 Institute of Natural Science and Technology, Murmansk State Technical University, Sportivnaya Str. 13, 183010 Murmansk, Russia 
 Institute of Electric Power Engineering and Electronics, Kazan State Power Engineering University, Krasnoselskaya St. 51, 420066 Kazan, Russia 
 Kazan Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, FRC Kazan Scientific Center of RAS, Lobachevsky St., 2/31, 420111 Kazan, Russia; HSE Tikhonov Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics, Tallinskaya St., 34, 123458 Moscow, Russia 
 Kazan Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, FRC Kazan Scientific Center of RAS, Lobachevsky St., 2/31, 420111 Kazan, Russia; A. Butlerov Chemical Institute, Kazan Federal University, Kremlevskaya St. 18, 420008 Kazan, Russia 
First page
1243
Publication year
2023
Publication date
2023
Publisher
MDPI AG
e-ISSN
20734360
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2785212288
Copyright
© 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.