Methylcellulose (MC) is also a carbohydrate polymer, is
soluble in water. It forms aqueous solutions and demonstrates
a unique property to form reversible physical gels
due to hydrophobic interactions when heated above a particular
temperature (Haque & Morris, 1993). MC finds
applications as a binder or thickener in pharmaceutical,
food and ceramic processing industries and can undergo
thermo-reversible gelation in aqueous solution upon heating