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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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Proton exchange membrane based on chitosan and solvent-free carbon nanotube fluids for fuel cells applications.
TL;DR: In this article, solvent-free carbon nanotube fluids (CNT fluids) with liquid-like behavior are prepared through an ion exchange method and incorporated into a chitosan (CS) matrix to fabricate composite membranes.
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Chitin and its derivatives as biopolymers with potential agricultural applications
TL;DR: It is concluded that chitin and its derivatives have great potential for applications in agriculture and it is foreseen that in the future these biopolymers will be used in greater extension, mainly for substituting actual chemical pesticides or as growth regulators.
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Functionalized chitosan adsorbents allow recovery of palladium and platinum from acidic aqueous solutions
Stein Mincke,Tsegaye Grima Asere,Ivar Verheye,Karel Folens,Flore Vanden Bussche,Linsey Lapeire,Kim Verbeken,Pascal Van Der Voort,Dejene A. Tessema,Fekadu Fufa,Gijs Du Laing,Christian V. Stevens +11 more
TL;DR: In this article, three new chitosan derivatives were synthesized and employed for Pd(II) and Pt(IV) recovery from acidic solutions, which achieved a maximum adsorption capacity of 262.6 mg g−1 and 119.5 mg g −1, respectively.
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Investigation of curcumin release from chitosan/cellulose micro crystals (CMC) antimicrobial films.
TL;DR: The curcumin loaded chitosan/cellulose micro crystals composite films showed fair antimicrobial action against bacteria and fungi and the kinetic data obtained was best interpreted by Higuchi model.
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Novel and revisited approaches in nanoparticle systems for buccal drug delivery
Ana S. Macedo,Pedro Castro,Luís Roque,Natália G. Thomé,Catarina Pinto Reis,Manuela Pintado,Pedro Fonte,Pedro Fonte +7 more
TL;DR: The main aim of this review is to perform an overview about the nanotechnological approaches developed so far to improve the buccal delivery of drugs, with a special focus on pipeline products.
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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.