PREPARATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OFCHITOSAN GELS

The main goal of this work is the preparation and characterization of gelsusingchitosan for further formulation and topic applications. To achieve this goal several gels from pharmaceutical quality chitosan of low( Mw= 72.180 g/mol ) andmedium.( Mw= 103.000 g/mol) molecular weight with a 4% w/w were employed.The prepared gels were characterized by infrared spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy andreological analyses.The spectroscopic study shows no great difference between both gels and most of chitosan bands are exhibited.The reological studies shows that both gels exhibit a non newtonian flow independent of the time, with seudoplastic for low molecular weight chitosan and plastic behavior for the medium molecular weight