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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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Synthesis, characterization and cytocompatibility studies of α-chitin hydrogel/nano hydroxyapatite composite scaffolds
P.T. Sudheesh Kumar,Sowmya Srinivasan,Vinoth-Kumar Lakshmanan,Hiroshi Tamura,S.V. Nair,Rangasamy Jayakumar +5 more
TL;DR: The results suggested that these scaffolds can be used for bone and wound tissue engineering.
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Extensively deacetylated high molecular weight chitosan from the multistep ultrasound-assisted deacetylation of beta-chitin.
Anderson Fiamingo,Jorge Augusto de Moura Delezuk,Stéphane Trombotto,Laurent David,Sérgio P. Campana-Filho +4 more
TL;DR: Results revealed that, thanks to the action of high intensity ultrasound irradiation, the USAD process allowed the preparation of unusually high molecular weight, randomly deacetylated chitosan, an important breakthrough to the development of new high grade chitOSan-based materials displaying superior mechanical properties.
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Preparation of chitosan-ethyl acrylate as a biopolymer adsorbent for basic dyes removal from colored solutions
TL;DR: In this paper, the chitosan-ethyl acrylate (Ch-g-Ea) as a biopolymer adsorbent was prepared and used for the removal of Basic Blue 41 (BB41) and Basic Red 18 (BR18) from colored solutions.
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Highly Structured Foams from Chitosan Gels
TL;DR: In this paper, a millifluidic cross-flow technique was used to generate highly ordered, solidified foam structures from chitosan hydrogels using millifluidic crossflow techniques.
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Multilayered textile coating based on a β-cyclodextrin polyelectrolyte for the controlled release of drugs
Adeline Martin,Nicolas Tabary,Laurent Leclercq,Jatupol Junthip,Stephanie Degoutin,François Aubert-Viard,Frederic Cazaux,Joel Lyskawa,Ludovic Janus,Marc Bria,Bernard Martel +10 more
TL;DR: The release study showed that drug reservoir properties and release kinetics could be controlled by the number of layers in the system and that TBBA release was faster than the multilayered coating degradation.
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Chitosan chemistry and pharmaceutical perspectives.
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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.