Research Article
Synthesis and Characterization of New Thiolated Chitosan Nanoparticles Obtained by Ionic Gelation Method
Table 3
Thermodynamic profile of thiolated and native chitosan.
| Sample | Gibbs energy () | Enthalpy () | Binding () | Entropy () | (active sites) | calmol | calmol |
M−1 | calK−1mol−1 | Sites |
| Native Ch (Phase 1) | −8621.78 | −7843 | 2.11 × 106 | 2.64 | 20 | Native Ch (Phase 2) | −8527 | 1.70 × 104 | 1.8 × 106 | 88.7 | 35 | Thiolated Ch (Phase 1) | −8938 | −6750 | 3.6 × 106 | 7.41 | 13 | Thiolated Ch (Phase 2) | −8852 | 1.79 × 104 | 3.11 × 106 | 86 | 23 |
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Gibbs free energy, enthalpy change, and entropy.
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