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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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Pickering emulsion gels based on insoluble chitosan/gelatin electrostatic complexes
TL;DR: In this article, insoluble chitosan/gelatin-B (CH/GB) complex particles were used for the first time as effective Pickering emulsifiers to make long-term stable oil-in-water emulsions and emulsion gels by one-step homogenization.
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Evaluation of activated carbon and bio-polymer modified activated carbon performance for palladium and platinum removal
TL;DR: In this paper, commercial activated carbon was used to optimize the palladium and platinum removal by applying the Taguchi approach, and the optimum operating conditions for removing the metals were pH = 2, particle size = 0.21mm and adsorbent dose = 10g/L. The equilibrium adsorption data were well described by Langmuir and Freundlich models.
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A platform for more sustainable chitin films from an ionic liquid process
Catherine King,Catherine King,Julia L. Shamshina,Gabriela Gurau,Paula Berton,Nur Farahnadiah Abdul Faruk Khan,Robin D. Rogers,Robin D. Rogers +7 more
TL;DR: Rinaudo et al. as mentioned in this paper used a simple casting method from a solution of chitin in the ionic liquid 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium acetate ([C2mim][OAc]).
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Facile production of chitin from crab shells using ionic liquid and citric acid.
TL;DR: Facile production of chitin from crab shells was performed by direct extraction using an ionic liquid, 1-allyl-3-methylimidazolium bromide (AMIMBr), followed by demineralization using citric acid.
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Chitin Nanowhisker Aerogels
TL;DR: Characterization showed that the rod-like crystalline nature of the nanowhiskers was retained during the aerogel production process, making the aerogs truly an assembled structure of chitin nanocrystals, which showed the lowest reported shrinkage during drying to date.
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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.