Chitin derived from the seafood wastes such as waste crab, shrimp and lobster shells is
abundant and renewable, and will become one of the most important chemical raw …

Current trends in food packaging systems are toward biodegradable polymer materials,
especially the food biopolymer films made from polysaccharides and proteins, but they are …

Intensive exploration and research in the past few decades on polysaccharide nanocrystals,
the highly crystalline nanoscale materials derived from natural resources, mainly focused …

In recent decades, there has been an increasing effort to reduce the use of fossil fuels and
oil derivatives, to decrease environmental pollution, and to counteract global warming. The …

Environmental pollution of non-degradable packaging and the increasing demand for
biodegradable food packaging materials are driving research on the design and …

Ionic liquids (ILs) have huge potential to provide advances in many areas such as energy,
pharmaceutical formulations, biomedical sciences, and technology. In the biomedical field …

As a recyclable and inexhaustible renewable resource, chitin is one of the most abundant
polysaccharides in nature. It has excellent biocompatibility, biodegradability, and non …

Chitin and chitosan are amino polysaccharides having multidimensional properties, such as
biocompatibility, biodegradability, antibacterial properties and non-toxicity, muco-adhesivity …

In this work, chitin microspheres (NCM) having a nanofibrous architecture were constructed
using a “bottom‐up” fabrication pathway. The chitin chains rapidly self‐assembled into …

Chitin-based nanoparticles are polysaccharide materials that can be produced from a waste
stream of the seafood industry: crustacean shells. These nanoparticles have received …