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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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Crosslinked chitosan films with controllable properties for commercial applications.
TL;DR: The chitosan bioproducts developed have the potential to replace plastic based products and will help to provide a greener alternative for the plastic based commodity products in current use.
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Development of lauroyl sulfated chitosan for enhancing hemocompatibility of chitosan.
R. Shelma,Chandra P. Sharma +1 more
TL;DR: It appears that LSCS is a hemocompatible version of CS, which was found to be non-toxic in L929 cell lines and was effective in reducing the protein adsorption on CS.
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Environmentally benign magnetic chitosan/Fe3O4 composites as reductant and stabilizer for anchoring Au NPs and their catalytic reduction of 4-nitrophenol
Yunfeng Qiu,Zhuo Ma,PingAn Hu +2 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reported the facile synthesis of environmentally benign Au NPs/chitosan composites without employing any toxic reductants or capping agents.
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The significance of electrospinning as a method to create fibrous scaffolds for biomedical engineering and drug delivery applications
TL;DR: The main aim of this review is to summarize the basic principles of electrospinning as well as the most recent developments regarding biomedical engineering, focusing on drug delivery.
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Recent progresses in Schiff bases as aqueous phase corrosion inhibitors: Design and applications
TL;DR: Schiff bases (SBs) possess the basic feature of compounds that are primarily qualified to test as corrosion inhibitors for different metal/electrolyte systems as discussed by the authors, and they can form corrosion mitigating surface film through their electron rich centers.
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Complexation Thermodynamics of Cyclodextrins.
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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.