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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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Alginate: properties and biomedical applications
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TL;DR: This review will provide a comprehensive overview of general properties of alginate and its hydrogels, their biomedical applications, and suggest new perspectives for future studies with these polymers.
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Chitin and chitosan polymers: Chemistry, solubility and fiber formation
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Biological materials: Structure and mechanical properties
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Application of chitosan, a natural aminopolysaccharide, for dye removal from aqueous solutions by adsorption processes using batch studies: A review of recent literature
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Chitosan-based biomaterials for tissue engineering
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The chitin system
K. M. Rudall,W. Kenchington +1 more
TL;DR: It is supported that Chitin is not found in Deuterostomia because of the absence of chitin synthetase, and is not find in higher plants because ofThe absence of glucosamine, and in Fungi, control mechanisms are present affecting the synthesis of glucOSamine; chit in is often present, but when it is absent this probably results from a failure to synthesize glucosamines.
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Evaluation of infrared spectroscopic techniques for analysing chitosan
TL;DR: In this article, the use of the 3450 cm−1 absorption band as an internal standard in the determination of the extent of N-acetylation of chitosan from the absorbance of the amide I band at 1655 cm− 1 was studied.
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Studies on chitin, 2. Effect of deacetylation on solubility
TL;DR: A reproducible method for obtaining water-soluble chitin and a relationship between solubility and degree of deacetylation of chitins were studied in this article.
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Preparation of alginate/galactosylated chitosan scaffold for hepatocyte attachment.
Taek Woong Chung,Jun Yang,Toshihiro Akaike,Kwang Yong Cho,Jae Woon Nah,Su Il Kim,Chong-Su Cho +6 more
TL;DR: Observation of the sponge through scanning electron microscopy revealed that sponge was a highly porous microstructure with interconnected pores and the mechanical property of the ALG/GC sponge was enhanced with an increase of the GC content.
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Infrared spectra of crystalline polysaccharides. V. Chitin
TL;DR: In this paper, the polarized infrared spectra of crab chitin crystallites, blowfly larval cuticle, lobster tendon, and partially deacetylated lobster chitins have been studied.