Development Polysaccharide Materials with Tunable Physicochemical Properties

吸附过程在自然界中是重要的和普遍存在的，是许多广泛的化学应用的基本步骤。吸附去除是吸收和分离复杂基质(如水环境)中的化学物种的最便宜和技术有效的方法。诸如多糖生物聚合物之类的吸附材料具有相当大的科学和技术价值，因为它们的独特性质可用于解决一系列技术应用(例如，环境修复、药物控制释放、化学分离、食品加工)。天然多糖的合成修饰为其分子结构和功能性质的增量调整提供了广泛的机会。

Adsorption processes are vital and ubiquitous in nature, and represent a fundamental step to many wide-ranging chemical applications. Adsorptive removal represents the least expensive and technically efficient method for the uptake and separation of chemical species in complex matrices such as aquatic environments. Adsorbent materials such as polysaccharide biopolymers are of considerable scientific and technological interest because their unique properties can be exploited to address a range of technological applications (e.g., environmental remediation, controlled release of pharmaceuticals, chemical separations, food processing). Synthetic modification of naturally occurring polysaccharides offers wide-ranging opportunities for incremental tuning of their molecular structure and functional properties.