Vol 3 , Issue 2 , July - December 2020 | Pages: 39-45
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The business has developed an interest in aqueous injectable, undisturbed gel-forming solutions with a range of properties, particularly in the field of tissue engineering. In-situ gel-forming matrix may be injected into the afflicted regions without the need for surgery. Second, it may be introduced as growth factors and medications by just mixing them together, without any issues with the leftover solvents that are often used in scaffolds, and it quickly adapts to the environment after being introduced. As a result, multi-walled carbon nanotubes that had undergone acid functionalization had their carbon nanotubes oxidised before being covalently grafted onto hydroxypropyl methylcellulose (HPMC). This was accomplished by dispersing acyl-chlorinated carbon nano-tubes in HPMC after they had been treated with thionyl chloride to produce a composite material known as M. The composites are more thermally stable than their separate components, according to investigations using thermogravimetrics, FT-IR, scanning electron microscopy, and electron microscopy.
Keywords
TGA; SEM; TEM; CNT; MWCNTs; HPMC; FT-IR