Sodium Alginate Thickener

Description:

Sodium alginate is the sodium form of alginate. Alginate is a linear, anionic polysaccharide consisting of two form of 1, *-linked hexuronic acid residues, β-d-mannuronopyranosyl (M) and α-l- guluronopyranosyl (G) residues. It can be arranged in the form of blocks of repeating M residues (MM blocks), blocks of repeating G residues (GG blocks), and blocks of mixed M and G residues (MG blocks). Commercially available alginate currently originates from algae. Alginate has wide applications. For example, one of its most important role is being used as wound dressing materials for the treatment of acute or chronic wounds. The use of alginate crosslinking to make hydrogels for cell encapsulation is also quite valuable. The emergence of various kinds of its derivatives recently has further extended its application.

Sodium alginate is a natural polysaccharide product that was first described in a patent application by the British chemist Edward C C Stanford in ***1. To this day brown algae are still the main source used to extract sodium alginate from. This group includes many of the seaweeds, like kelps, found in chilly northern seas. In addition to the food industry, the gelling properties of sodium alginate have been used in medical, dental and cosmetic applications for years.

Application:

1. Food: applied to beverage and health care products, removing heavy metals from bodies
2. Cosmetics: widely used as a main ingredient of the facial mask
3. Dental impression: main element in the dental inpression materials;
4. Medicin & health care product: lower the blood fat, blood pressure and cholesterol levels
5. Industrial welding materials: can be widely used as an additive in high-quality welding rod coatings

Specification:

Molecular formula:( C6H7O6Na)n
Molecular Weight:*0,*****0,**0