Notice of RetractionChemo-Enzymatic Synthesis of Nanofiber Membrane with Glucose by Electrospinning

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Glycopolymers/PAN fibers were successfully prepared by electrospinning method from co-dissolving solutions of PAN and glycopolymersl in Dimethylformamide (DMF) as the spinning solutions. The samples thereby obtained were characterized by SEM and FTIR measurements. The polymerizable glucose monomers were synthesized by selective enzymatic synthesis methods using divinyl dicarboylates with different carbon chain length as acyl donor. FT-IR were used to characterize the synthesized monomer. Polymerizable glucose monomers were copolyymerized using AIBN as initiator. The structure and molecular weight of the glycopolymers was confirmed by FT-IR and GPC. The molecular weight of the glycopolymers reached 2.35×104. Composite membranes of glycopolymers/PAN nanofibers with different weight ratio of glycopolymers were fabricated successfully using electrospinning. Results from SEM showed that the glycopolymers was distributed evenly in PAN nanofibers and the intermolecular interactions of the complex were evaluated by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR). Results show that the blends prepared here have unique structures that could be developed further to expand the applications of nanofibers such as lipase immobilization, lectin recognition abilities, biosepartion techniques and hepatocyte adhension.