Sei-ichi Aiba

TL;DR: In this review, microbial and enzymatic biodegradation of plastics and some factors that affect their biodegradability are discussed.

TL;DR: The modifications discussed here include chitosan attached to sugars, dendrimers, cyclodextrins, crown ethers, and glass beads, which are excellent candidates for drug delivery systems or cell culture owing to their specificity.

TL;DR: In this article, the physical properties of chitosan and gelatin composite films, plasticized with water or polyols, were studied, and an increase in the total plasticizer content resulted in a considerable decrease of elasticity modulus and tensile strength.

TL;DR: In this article, the thermal and mechanical properties of gelatin with soluble starch plasticized with water, glycerol or sugars were investigated and two different methods, known as "the high temperature" and "the low temperature" methods, consisting of casting aqueous solutions of blends at 60 and 20 °C, respectively, were employed for the preparation of films.

TL;DR: The lysozymic digestibility of partially N-acetylated chitosans was studied by measuring the reducing sugars produced and the molecular weights of their hydrolysates as mentioned in this paper.