. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Nov 26.

Published in final edited form as: ACS Nano. 2013 Oct 11;7(11):10.1021/nn4026228. doi: 10.1021/nn4026228

Table 2.

Thermodynamic parameters derived from ITC analysis of chitosan-liposome binding. Values are given per mole of glucosamine unit.

DS of C₁₈ (mol %)	N	K 10⁴ M⁻¹	ΔH kcal/mol	ΔG kcal/mol	ΔS cal/mol•K
0	0.88 ± 0.02	1.55 ± 0.08	2.31 ± 0.07	−5.71	26.9
2.3	0.98 ± 0.05	1.91 ± 0.27	2.43 ± 0.17	−5.83	27.7
4.2	0.89 ± 0.02	2.22 ± 0.12	2.43 ± 0.06	−5.92	28.0