Grafted Biopolymers as Corrosion Inhibitors

7 Factors Affecting Biopolymers Grafting

Marziya Rizvi¹,^*, Preeti Gupta1, Hariom Kumar¹, Manoj Dhameja¹, and Husnu Gerengi²

¹ Department of Chemistry, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow 226003, Uttar Pradesh, India ² Corrosion Research Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Duzce University, Duzce 81620, Turkey ^* Corresponding author

7.1 Introduction

Grafting biopolymers is of immense importance in the field of polymer engineering. On a broader view, biopolymer grafting process, along with trends in the field, should be researched. This mends the differences between the synthesis principles, characterization techniques, and different applications of polymer grafting. It is expected that the development of innovation for the grafting of biopolymers will render more applicable strategies in the field of polymer engineering.

Graft copolymers are macromolecular-chain polymeric structures with one or more units of a block(s), which are connected to the main polymeric chain. In the case of these graft copolymers, the chemical properties of the polymeric backbone branches as well as structural properties, like molecular numbers and weights, spatial distributions of polymeric chain branches, etc., are the basic parameters to reveal various important performances. Graft copolymerization of various natural polysaccharides has been investigated to modify their structures to make them attractive biomaterials since native polysaccharides are mostly not suitable because ...