Recent research on the drug delivery systems exhibited tremendous improvements for
several short life drugs which disappear in few minutes in harsh conditions of the …

Publisher Summary This chapter presents a review of the structural aspects of biopolymer
gels and the mechanisms of their formation. It describes a simple classification of gelling …

Comprehensive in scope, Food Polysaccharides and Their Applications, Second Edition
explains the production aspects and the chemical and physical properties of the main …

Completely revised and expanded to reflect the latest advancements in the field,
Polysaccharides: Structural Diversity and Functional Versatility, Second Edition outlines …

fudustrial uses of polysaccharides centre on their ability to thicken or structure many times
their own weight of water, or in other words to control the rheology of hydrated systems. Until …

Dynamic oscillatory shear testing has been used to study the rheology of xanthan gum in the
moderate concentration regime (500< c< 5000 ppm). The dynamic moduli of two industrial …

The major polysaccharide in tamarind seed is a galactoxyloglucan for which the ratios
galactose: xylose: glucose are 1: 2.25: 2.8. A minor polysaccharide (2–3%) contains …

The thermally induced order-disorder transition of xanthan (extracellular bacterial
polysaccharide from Xanthomonas campestris) has been investigated by optical rotation …

The properties of xanthan gum (XG) aqueous solutions were investigated by using
viscometric, electrokinetic and surface tension measurements. The effects of polymer …

Sedimentation velocity data were obtained for 12 samples of xanthan (sodium salt) in 0.1 M
aqueous NaCl at 25 C, in which this polysaccharidedissolves as a double helix. For two of …