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ArticlePolymers2025

Glass Transition and Crystallization of Chitosan Investigated by Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy.

Massimiliano Labardi, Margherita Montorsi, Sofia Papa, Laura M Ferrari, Francesco Greco, Giovanni Scarioni, Simone Capaccioli

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Article in Polymers, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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7 authors.

Massimiliano LabardiConsiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Istituto per i Processi Chimico-Fisici (IPCF), Sede Secondaria di Pisa, Largo Pontecorvo 3, 56127 Pisa, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-4276-049X
Margherita MontorsiConsiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Istituto per i Processi Chimico-Fisici (IPCF), Sede Secondaria di Pisa, Largo Pontecorvo 3, 56127 Pisa, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-3916-2966
Sofia PapaThe Biorobotics Institute and Department of Excellence in Robotics & AI, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Viale R. Piaggio 34, 56025 Pontedera, Italy.
Laura M FerrariThe Biorobotics Institute and Department of Excellence in Robotics & AI, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Viale R. Piaggio 34, 56025 Pontedera, Italy.
Francesco GrecoThe Biorobotics Institute and Department of Excellence in Robotics & AI, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Viale R. Piaggio 34, 56025 Pontedera, Italy.
Giovanni ScarioniPhysics Department, University of Pisa, Largo Pontecorvo 3, 56127 Pisa, Italy.
Simone CapaccioliConsiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Istituto per i Processi Chimico-Fisici (IPCF), Sede Secondaria di Pisa, Largo Pontecorvo 3, 56127 Pisa, Italy.

Funding

European Union-Next Generation EU Italy - Spoke 3 (CUP: I53C22000780001)Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR) PRIN 2022 program (PROMISE project, CUP: 153D23004700006)
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chitosan films obtained by solution casting were investigated by broadband dielectric spectroscopy (BDS) to explore both their glass transition and the effects of thermal annealing on molecular dynamics, deriving from residual water content as well as from cold crystallization. Glass transition at low temperatures could be evidenced in as-produced as well as thermally annealed films, where non-Arrhenian dielectric relaxation processes, consistent with a structural (α) relaxation, could be detected. The process detected at low temperatures could reflect the dynamics of residual water slaved by the polymer matrix. Secondary (β) relaxations, along with a slow process ascribed to interfacial polarization at the amorphous/crystalline interfaces, were concurrently detected. In most cases, a further Arrhenian process at intermediate temperatures (α

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chitosancrystallizationdielectric spectroscopyglass transitionwater

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PMID41150299
PMCPMC12567186

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