Table 1.
Sr. No. | Polymeric Matrices | Thermo Gravimetric Data | DTG Peaks (°C) | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Stages of | % | Left out | FDT | Exothermic | ||
Degradation | Weight Loss | Residue at 200 °C (%) | (°C) | |||
1 | Chitosan | 26–100 | 12.44 | 86.01 | 576 | 70 |
200–400 | 54.66 | 290 | ||||
400–576 | 31.35 | 570 | ||||
4 | Ch-graft-poly (AA-cop-AAm) | 28.7–100 | 3.28 | 88.22 | 674 | 218 |
200–400 | 43.64 | 377 | ||||
400–600 | 23.78 | 630 | ||||
600–674 | 18.6 | |||||
5 | Ch-graft-poly (AA-cop-AN) | 21.2–100 | 5.97 | 88.44 | 680 | 234 |
200–400 | 31.56 | 389 | ||||
400–500 | 13.85 | 654 | ||||
500–680 | 43.03 |