Showing papers by "Caroline L. Schauer published in 2007"

TL;DR: Though the extent to which GA penetrates into the chitosan fibers is currently unknown, it is evident that the cross-linking resulted in increased brittleness, a color change, and the restriction of fiber sliding that resulted in the loss of a pseudo-yield point.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that Schiff base cross-linked chitosan fibrous mats can be produced utilizing a one-step electrospinning process that is 25 times faster and, therefore, more economical than a previously reported two-step vapor-cross-linking method.

TL;DR: A new method is identified here for producing Ca2+-cross-linked thin films of sodium alginate, using an aerosolized spray of CaCl2 solution, that exhibits structural color that varies with film thickness and is demonstrated that this structural color is highly reproducible and can also be tuned to produce a wide range of colored films.