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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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Bat guano as new and attractive chitin and chitosan source
TL;DR: It has been observed that bat guano can be considered to be an alternative source of chitin and chitosan to crab, shrimp, crayfish and krill.
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Facile route to produce chitin nanofibers as precursors for flexible and transparent gas barrier materials.
TL;DR: Dried ChNFs form pure self-standing chitin films with the lowest to-date reported O2 and CO2 permeabilities of 0.006 and 0.018 barrer, respectively, combined with high flexibility and optical transparency, these materials are ideal candidates for sustainable barrier packaging.
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Crosslinked, electrospun chitosan–poly(ethylene oxide) nanofiber mats
TL;DR: In this paper, a chitosan-poly(ethylene oxide) copolymer blend was electrospun and crosslinked with glutaraldehyde (GA) for various time periods.
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Antibacterial effects of chitosan–tripolyphosphate nanoparticles: impact of particle size molecular weight
TL;DR: In this paper, the antibacterial potential of smaller chitosan-tripolyphosphate nanoparticles (CS-TPP NPs) over larger ones has been revealed.
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The effect of the degree of deacetylation of chitosan on its dispersion of carbon nanotubes
Chularat Iamsamai,Supot Hannongbua,Uracha Ruktanonchai,Apinan Soottitantawat,Stephan Thierry Dubas +4 more
TL;DR: In this article, the effect of the degree of deacetylation (DD) of chitosan biopolymer on the noncovalent surface modification of multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) is presented.
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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.