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Chitin and chitosan: Properties and applications
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Chitin is the second most important natural polymer in the world as mentioned in this paper, and the main sources of chitin are two marine crustaceans, shrimp and crabs, which are used for food, cosmetics, biomedical and pharmaceutical applications.About:
This article is published in Progress in Polymer Science.The article was published on 2006-07-01. It has received 6365 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Chitin nanofibril.read more
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Nanostructural organization of naturally occurring composites-part II: silica-chitin-based biocomposites
Hermann Ehrlich,Dorte Janussen,Paul Simon,Vasily V. Bazhenov,N. P. Shapkin,Christiane Erler,Michael Mertig,René Born,Sascha Heinemann,Thomas Hanke,Hartmut Worch,John N. Vournakis +11 more
TL;DR: The structural similarity of chit in derived from this sponge to invertebrate alpha chitin has been confirmed unambiguously using physicochemical and biochemical methods, and this is the first report of a silica-chitin composite biomaterial found in Rossella species.
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Nitrogen Self-Doped Porous Carbon for High-Performance Supercapacitors
TL;DR: In this article, supercapacitor electrodes based on carbonaceous materials with hierarchical porosity and localized graphitic structure can help super-capacitors to achieve considerable energy capacity.
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Implications for public health demands alternatives to inorganic and synthetic flocculants: bioflocculants as important candidates
TL;DR: This review paper comprehensively discussed the various chemical flocculant used in water treatment, including their advantages and disadvantages, and gave insights into bioflocculants production, challenges, various factors influencing their floccculating efficiency and their industrial applications, as well as future research directions.
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Biocompatible fungal chitosan encapsulated phytogenic silver nanoparticles enhanced antidiabetic, antioxidant and antibacterial activity
Anbazhagan Sathiyaseelan,Kandasamy Saravanakumar,Arokia Vijaya Anand Mariadoss,Myeong-Hyeon Wang +3 more
TL;DR: FCS-GP-AgNPs proved to be biocompatible in terms of less cytotoxicity and promising in antibacterial and diabetics related enzyme inhibitory activity and was tested in A549, LN229, and NIH3T3 cells.
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Preparation of chitosan-graft-polyacrylamide magnetic composite microspheres for enhanced selective removal of mercury ions from water
TL;DR: Improvement is attributed to the formation of stronger interactions between Hg and the amide groups of PAM branches for chelating effects in CS-PAM-MCM, and the removal of the three aforementioned metal ions may follow a similar adsorption manner through a homogeneous monolayer chemisorption process.
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Chitosan chemistry and pharmaceutical perspectives.
TL;DR: Department of Pharmaceutics, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Sector 67, S. S. Nagar, Punjab-160 062, India, Institute of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Polytechnic University, Via Ranieri 67, IT-60100 Ancona, Italy, and Department of Medicinal Chemistry & Natural Products,The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, School of Pharmacy-Faculty of medicine, Jerusalem 91120, Israel.
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Application of chitin- and chitosan-based materials for enzyme immobilizations: a review
TL;DR: A review of the literature on enzymes immobilized on chitin- and chitosan-based materials, covering the last decade, is presented in this paper, where one hundred fifty-eight papers on 63 immobilized enzymes for multiplicity of applications ranging from wine, sugar and fish industry, through organic compounds removal from wastewaters to sophisticated biosensors for both in situ measurements of environmental pollutants and metabolite control in artificial organs, are reviewed.
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Novel injectable neutral solutions of chitosan form biodegradable gels in situ
Abdellatif Chenite,C Chaput,Dadong Wang,C Combes,Michael D. Buschmann,Caroline D. Hoemann,Jean-Christophe Leroux,B.L Atkinson,F Binette,A Selmani +9 more
TL;DR: This study reports for the first time the use of polymer/polyol salt aqueous solutions as gelling systems, suggesting the discovery of a prototype for a new family of thermosetting gels highly compatible with biological compounds.
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An infrared investigation in relation with chitin and chitosan characterization
J Brugnerotto,J. Lizardi,Francisco M. Goycoolea,Waldo Argüelles-Monal,Jacques Desbrieres,Marguerite Rinaudo +5 more
TL;DR: The use of infrared spectroscopy for characterization of the composition of chitin and chitosan covering the entire range of degree of acetylation (DA) and a wide variety of raw materials is examined further in this article.