Investigation of the gelation mechanism between amino acid surfactant based microemulsion and kappa-carrageenan gel network

• Main Authors: Nasima Akter,, Shahidan Radiman,, Faizal Mohamed,, Nazaruddin Ramly,, Edy Giri Rachman Putra,, Ari Sulistyo Rini,
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2014
• Online Access: http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6848/1/06_Nasima_Akter.pdf; http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6848/; http://www.ukm.my/jsm

Kappa-carrageenan is one form of necessary hydrocolloid. Hydrocolloids are macromolecular materials, which swell upon absorption of water; in some cases, forming a stiff gel in the presence of additives. This property is very important to suspend nanocarriers into gel network, which provide them lon...