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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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Biopolymer/Calcium phosphate scaffolds for bone tissue engineering.
Jianhua Li,Bryan A. Baker,Xiaoning Mou,Na Ren,Jichuan Qiu,Robert I. Boughton,Hong Liu,Hong Liu +7 more
TL;DR: The purpose of this paper is to review the recent progress of the naturally derived biopolymers and the methods applied to generate biomimetic biopolymer/calcium phosphate composites as well as their biomedical applications in bone tissue engineering.
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Nanocellulose and chitosan based films as low cost, green piezoelectric materials
TL;DR: The piezoelectric responses (2-8 pC/N) for solvent casted films based on nanocellulose, microcrystalline chitosan and their blends are measured to find out if chitOSan could be used to enhance the flexibility of the brittle nano cellulose films.
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Physicochemical and biological characterization of chitosan-microRNA nanocomplexes for gene delivery to MCF-7 breast cancer cells
Beatriz Santos-Carballal,Lukas Jan Aaldering,Markus Ritzefeld,Susana Pereira,Norbert Sewald,Bruno M. Moerschbacher,Martin Götte,Francisco M. Goycoolea +7 more
TL;DR: Surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy shows that complexes formed by low degree of acetylation chitosans are highly stable, regardless of the molecular weight, and shows that CS–miRNA complexes offer a promising non-viral platform for breast cancer gene therapy.
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Functionalized blown films of plasticized polylactic acid/chitin nanocomposite: Preparation and characterization
Natalia Herrera,Hendrik Roch,Asier M. Salaberria,Maximiliano A. Pino-Orellana,Jalel Labidi,Susana C. M. Fernandes,Deodato Radić,Angel Leiva,Kristiina Oksman,Kristiina Oksman +9 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the morphological, mechanical, optical, thermal and barrier properties of the blown nanocomposite films were studied and compared with the reference material without chitin nanocrystals.
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Highly antibacterial materials constructed from silver molybdate nanoparticles immobilized in chitin matrix
TL;DR: In this article, a green pathway for the fabrication of the nanoparticle/polymer hybrid materials, having great potentials in the biomaterial field, was proposed, where the microporous structure of CGM at wet state was served as reaction chambers to synthesize the Ag 2 Mo 2 O 7 nanoparticles.
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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.