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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jul 10.
Published in final edited form as: J Control Release. 2020 Apr 10;323:161–178. doi: 10.1016/j.jconrel.2020.04.012

Table 5.

Thermodynamic parameters of the binding interaction between oleic acid-grafted-chitosan polymers and zinc-insulin hexamers in phosphate buffered saline (10 mM, pH 7.4). Data are expressed as mean ± S.D, n=3.

Polymer k × 107 (M−1) n (mol) ΔH (kJ mol−1)
Chitosan 5 kDa (CSO) 11.17 ± 0.09 3.04 ± 0.09 −25.75 ± 0.87
CSO-g-Oleic acid (25%) 10.72 ± 0.27 3.26 ± 0.02 −23.96 ± 0.39
CSO-g-Oleic acid (45%) 9.99 ± 0.18 3.76 ± 0.01 −21.13 ± 0.12