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Hydroxyethyl-cellulose

viscosity 90-160 cP, 5 % in H2O(25 °C)

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Synonym(s):
Cellosize® EP-09
CAS Number:
MDL number:
NACRES:
NA.25

form

powder

color

beige

viscosity

90-160 cP, 5 % in H2O(25 °C)

storage temp.

room temp

InChI

1S/C29H52O21/c1-10-15(34)16(35)24(13(8-33)45-10)49-28-20(39)18(37)25(50-29-26(43-5-4-30)21(40)23(42-3)12(7-32)47-29)14(48-28)9-44-27-19(38)17(36)22(41-2)11(6-31)46-27/h10-40H,4-9H2,1-3H3

InChI key

CWSZBVAUYPTXTG-UHFFFAOYSA-N

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General description

Hydroxyethyl cellulose is a gelling and thickening agent derived from cellulose and is widely used in cosmetics, cleaning solutions and other household products. It is used with hydrophobic drugs in capsule formulations, to improve the drugs dissolution in the gastrointestinal fluids. This process is known as hydrophilization.

Application

Hydroxyethylcellulose is used as a gelling and thickening agent in the development of biostructures for the delivery of hydrophobic drugs. Hydroxyethylcellulose is used in the development of polymer networks and block copolymers useful in separation technology such as capillary electrophoresis and in biofilms and coatings. It is also used for encapsulation of cells in chitosan/glycerophosphate/hydroxyethyl cellulose (chitosan-GP/HEC) gels.

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Network-forming polymer in capillary electrophoresis of DNA restriction fragments

Storage Class Code

11 - Combustible Solids

WGK

WGK 1

Flash Point(F)

Not applicable

Flash Point(C)

Not applicable

Personal Protective Equipment

dust mask type N95 (US), Eyeshields, Gloves

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Peter Roughley et al.
Biomaterials, 27(3), 388-396 (2005-08-30)
The suitability of chitosan-based hydrogels as scaffolds for the encapsulation of intervertebral disc (IVD) cells and the accumulation of a functional extracellular matrix mimicking that of the nucleus pulposus (NP) was investigated. The specific hypothesis under study was that the
M H Kleemiss et al.
Electrophoresis, 14(5-6), 515-522 (1993-05-01)
Separation of DNA restriction fragments in dilute buffer solutions of network forming polymers such as linear polyacrylamide (PAA), hydroxyethyl cellulose (HEC) and polyvinylalcohol (PVA) in phosphate buffer were investigated. PVA in buffers already became inhomogeneous after a few separations with
Runmiao Yang et al.
Electrophoresis, 29(7), 1460-1466 (2008-04-04)
We present cationized hydroxyethylcellulose (cat-HEC) synthesized in our laboratory as a novel physically adsorbed coating for CE. This capillary coating is simple and easy to obtain as it only requires flushing the capillary with polymer aqueous solution. A comparative study
Dan Zhou et al.
Journal of separation science, 34(23), 3441-3450 (2011-11-01)
To stabilize electroosmotic flow (EOF) and suppress protein adsorption onto the silica capillary inner wall, a cationic hydroxyethylcellulose-graft-poly (poly(ethylene glycol) methyl ether methacrylate) (cat-HEC-g-PPEGMA) graft copolymer composed of cationic backbone and bottle brush-like side chains was synthesized for the first
Temperature-responsive self-assembly of charged and unchargedhydroxyethylcellulose-graft-poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) copolymer in aqueous solution.
Phan HT, Zhu K, Kj?niksen AL, Nystrom B.
Coll. Polymer Sci., 289, 993-1003 (2011)

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