still owned the characteristic of chirality like agar molecule. This
may be the reason why agar acetate and raw agar had the similar
variation trend of solution optical rotation on cooling. However,
the introduction of acetyl group could lower the solution optical
rotation value of raw agar. The variation process of agar molecules
in solution from coil to helix could be observed not only in a higher
concentration solution (0.25 wt%) at which the solution could form
a gel, but also in a lower concentration solution (0.05 wt%) at which
even the solution could not form a gel. The temperature of the transition beginning point (from coil to helix) of the agar molecules
was higher in a higher concentration solution (0.25 wt%) than that
in a lower concentration solution (0.05 wt%), but its temperature
of the transition end point (from coil to helix) was almost the
same in both higher and lower concentration solution. As for this,
it might be attributed to that the probability of collision between
agar molecules was greater in the higher concentration solution
than that in the lower concentration solution. Meanwhile, it could
be also found that the temperature of the transition end point of
agar acetate was obviously lower than that of raw agar.
3.4. Rheological studies
The solution apparent viscosity of raw agar and its acetates at
different temperature was shown in Fig. 4.
It could be seen from Fig. 4 that the solution apparent viscosity values of raw agar and agar acetates increased gradually as
the temperature decreased, and the increase amplitude of solution
apparent viscosity for all samples was small at the temperature
above 50
◦
C. All solution apparent viscosity values of agar acetates
were lower than the one of raw agar under the same conditions,
and the solution of the agar acetates with bigger DS had lower
viscosity. It could be found from Fig. 3 above that the molecules
of both raw agar and agar acetate began to change from single
coil to double helix when the temperature was lower than 70
◦
C.
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