PMID- 28821114 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE DCOM- 20180220 LR - 20180220 IS - 1879-1344 (Electronic) IS - 0144-8617 (Linking) VI - 174 DP - 2017 Oct 15 TI - Preparation and characterization of a composite biomaterial including starch micro/nano particles loaded chitosan gel. PG - 633-645 LID - S0144-8617(17)30732-4 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.carbpol.2017.06.095 [doi] AB - Thermosensitive Chitosan hydrogels which can be injected into defects with minimally invasive approach were prepared. Also starch micro/nano particles were synthesized via water-in-oil (W/O) miniemulsion technique. The starch particles were incorporated into the chitosan hydrogel to prepare injectable thermosensitive hydrogel composites. Tube inverting method, compression tests, swelling studies, XRD, SEM, OM, DLS, UV-vis spectroscopy were used for investigations. Results revealed that increasing crosslinker and surfactant contents and stirring rate leads to particle size reduction. Particle size was modeled using design of experiments (DOE) via the response surface method (RSM). Due to analysis of variance (ANOVA), the particle sizes can be predicted by quadratic model within the design space. Gelation time and compressive modulus measurements showed the particles significant influence on the blend network density and hydrogel mechanical properties. Swelling measurements revealed that incorporation of starch particles in chitosan hydrogel increases its swelling coefficient significantly. The innovative architecture, namely micro/nano particles in gel can be considered as a dual delivery platform or smart scaffold for engineering of certain tissues. CI - Copyright (c) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. FAU - Dehghan Baniani, Dorsa AU - Dehghan Baniani D AD - Polymeric Materials Research Group, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, P.O. Box 11155-9466, Iran. Electronic address: dehghanbaniani_d@mehr.sharif.edu. FAU - Bagheri, Reza AU - Bagheri R AD - Polymeric Materials Research Group, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, P.O. Box 11155-9466, Iran. Electronic address: rezabagh@sharif.edu. FAU - Solouk, Atefeh AU - Solouk A AD - Department of Biomedical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. Electronic address: atefeh.solouk@aut.ac.ir. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20170624 PL - England TA - Carbohydr Polym JT - Carbohydrate polymers JID - 8307156 OTO - NOTNLM OT - AHP (Pubchem CID: 24402) OT - Acetic acid (Pubchem CID: 176) OT - Acetone (Pubchem CID: 180) OT - Chitosan (Pubchem CID: 71853) OT - Compressive modulus OT - Design of experiments (DOE) OT - Hydrogel composites OT - Methylene blue (Pubchem CID: 6099) OT - Micro/nano particles OT - Phosphate buffered saline (Pubchem CID: 24978514) OT - Sodium chloride (Pubchem CID: 5234) OT - Sodium hydroxide (Pubchem CID: 14798) OT - Span 80 (Pubchem CID: 5385498) OT - Starch OT - Starch (Pubchem CID: 439341) OT - Surface response method OT - Thermosensitive chitosan hydrogel OT - Trisodium trimeta phosphate (Pubchem CID: 24579) OT - Tween 80 (Pubchem CID: 5281955) EDAT- 2017/08/20 06:00 MHDA- 2017/08/20 06:01 CRDT- 2017/08/20 06:00 PHST- 2017/01/24 00:00 [received] PHST- 2017/05/17 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2017/06/22 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2017/08/20 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2017/08/20 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2017/08/20 06:01 [medline] AID - S0144-8617(17)30732-4 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.carbpol.2017.06.095 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Carbohydr Polym. 2017 Oct 15;174:633-645. doi: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2017.06.095. Epub 2017 Jun 24.