Novel agarose and agar fibers: Fabrication and characterization

In this study, natural agarose and agar polysaccharides were successfully developed to novel fibrous form for the first time via wet-spinning. Dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO)/H2O = 9:1(v/v) mixture was used as an appropriate solvent which was amenable to the wet-spinning process that produced continuous agarose and agar fibers in ethanol coagulation bath. Results of SEM investigation, swelling ratio and tensile test suggested that the smooth and...