Guar Gum-Based Hydrogel Development Services

Guar gum-based hydrogel is widely used in various fields such as biomedicine because of its physical or chemical stability, high hydrophilicity, high swelling, and biocompatibility. Matexcel has built a team of professionals to help our customers develop effective guar gum-based hydrogel development strategies to achieve their sustainable and cost-competitive production. Our dedicated scientists can provide you with a full range of services to address all of the challenges in your guar gum-based hydrogel production and application.

Introduction to Guar Gum-Based Hydrogel

Guar gum is one of the naturally occurring high molecular weight water-soluble polysaccharides, which is acquired by the ground endosperm of Cyamopsis tetragonolobus or Cyamopsis psoraloides. The presence of a large number of hydroxyl groups increases the hydrogen bonding capacity of guar gum when dissolved in water, thereby increasing the viscosity and gelling properties of guar gum solutions. Meanwhile, guar gum is of great interest due to its low cost, and abundant and renewable resources. Based on the excellent properties of guar gum such as high adsorption capacity, gel formation ability, high stability, non-toxicity, biocompatibility, biosafety, and biodegradation, guar gum-based hydrogel is widely used in biomedical, agricultural, and other fields. Considerable efforts have been made to synthesize guar gum-based hydrogels, based on the different synthesis methods, guar gum-based hydrogels can be classified into copolymers and semi-interpenetrating polymer networks (s-IPN) hydrogels. In hydrogels, the straight polymer chains of guar gum are randomly connected to each other by cross-linking agents. Two active sites are present on these cross-linking agents, which are intermolecularly bonded to the hydroxyl groups of the polymer chains, forming a highly compact coil-like assembly. When water is added to such a compact structure it gets entrapped into it with a net increase in water absorption/holding tendency of the guar gum-based hydrogels and therefore, are widely utilized in pharmaceutical and biomedical applications.

Fig. 1 Graphical representation of the synthesized guar gum based self-healing cross-linked hydrogel. (Verma D, et al., 2021)

Applications of Guar Gum-Based Hydrogel

Guar gum-based hydrogels have many beneficial properties that make them attractive polymeric materials for a wide range of applications such as biomedical, agricultural, and other fields.

Our Services

Matexcel leverages our expertise and extensive experience in hydrogel development to help our customers overcome all difficulties in the design and production of guar gum-based hydrogels. Our customized guar gum-based hydrogel development services include but are not limited to the following:

• Guar Gum-Based Hydrogel formulation design services: We customize guar gum-based hydrogel designs based on our customers' needs by varying hydrogel composition, cross-linking methods, configuration dimensions, permeability, aqueous liquid swelling, diffusivity, and degradability to precisely meet customer requirements for a variety of exciting and high-growth applications.
• Guar Gum-Based Hydrogel modification services: We can adopt tailored modification schemes to modify and optimize the original properties of the hydrogel according to the demands of downstream applications for various performance parameters of guar gum-based hydrogel, so that it can have better properties, such as excellent biocompatibility, hydrophilicity, degradability, easily adjustable physicochemical properties and structure.
• Guar Gum-Based Hydrogel analysis and characterization services: We provide a full range of analysis and characterization services in the development of guar gum-based hydrogels, as well as efficacy testing services for guar gum-based hydrogel samples.

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Matexcel is committed to helping our customers overcome all difficulties in the guar gum-based hydrogel research and development process. If you are interested in our services, please fill out the online inquiry form and tell us more about your project.

References

1. Verma D; Sharma SK. Recent advances in guar gum based drug delivery systems and their administrative routes. Int J Biol Macromol. 2021, 181:653-671.
2. Sharma G; et al. Guar gum and its composites as potential materials for diverse applications: A review. Carbohydr Polym. 2018, 199:534-545.