The Preparation of Functionalized Crosslinked Macroporous Chitosan Microspheres and their Adsorption Properties for Bilirubin

glutaraldehyde cross-linked macroporous chitosan microspheres (CS) were prepared by inverse phase suspension reaction with sugar as porogenic agent. The microspheres were modified with different reagents of 1, 6 hexanediamine (HDA) and low generation polyamidoamine (PAMAM) dendrimers including PAMAM G1.0, PAMAM G2.0, PAMAM G3.0. The content of amino groups on CS, CS-PAMAM CS-PAMAM G2.0, CS-PAMAM G3.0, CS-HDA was 3.56, 5.10, 5.47, 6.47, 4.66 mmol/g, respectively. The bilirubin adsorption on the above five microspheres was carried out in 0.05M phosphate buffer solution (pH = 7.2-7.4) at 37 degrees C. The results indicated all the modified CS microspheres were better than unmodified CS microspheres for bilirubin adsorption. CS-HDA has the best adsorption property even if the content of the amino groups was not very high.