Functional Polymers Division, Industrial Products Research Institute, 1-1-4, Yatabe-machi Higashi, Tsukuba-gun, Ibaraki 305, Japan
Abstract:
Novel graft copolymers have been synthesized by the reaction of N-carboxyanhydrides of amino acids with partially deacetylated chitins. The graft copolymers had different swelling ability from the original chitin.