“…Taking advantage of the chemical CD structure with many hydroxyl groups, different authors have reported synthesis of hydrogels using CD as a cross-linker with poly(acrylic acid) (Kutyła et al, 2013) or CD-based hydrogels using different crosslinkers such as epichlorohydrin (Machín, Isasi, & Vélaz, 2012;Zhang, Zhou, & Zhang, 2013), ethyleneglycol diglycidyl ether (Glisoni et al, 2013;Rodriguez-Tenreiro, Alvarez-Lorenzo, Rodriguez-Perez, Concheiro, & Torres-Labandeira, 2007), disubstituted poly(ethyleneglycol) (Cesteros, González-Teresa, & Katime, 2009), hexamethylenediisocyanate (Thatiparti, Shoffstall, & von Synthesis conditions and characterization of the hydrogels after purification and freeze-drying (P/O and P/C atomic ratios determined by XPS, and swelling ratio SR determined in pure water).…”