Applications of chitosan in food, pharmaceuticals, medicine, cosmetics, agriculture, textiles, pulp and paper, biotechnology, and environmental chemistry

N Morin-Crini, E Lichtfouse, G Torri, G Crini - Environmental Chemistry …, 2019‏ - Springer
Chitosan is a biopolymer obtained from chitin, one of the most abundant and renewable
materials on Earth. Chitin is a primary component of cell walls in fungi, the exoskeletons of …

Hydrophilicity and hydrophobicity consideration of organic surfactant compounds: Effect of alkyl chain length on corrosion protection

C Verma, MA Quraishi, KY Rhee - Advances in Colloid and Interface …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Organic compounds have been recognized as one of the utmost operative corrosion
protective measures. However, their usage and synthesis are allied with the consumption …

Chitosan: an update on potential biomedical and pharmaceutical applications

RCF Cheung, TB Ng, JH Wong, WY Chan - Marine drugs, 2015‏ - mdpi.com
Chitosan is a natural polycationic linear polysaccharide derived from chitin. The low
solubility of chitosan in neutral and alkaline solution limits its application. Nevertheless …

Control of biofilm formation: antibiotics and beyond

A Algburi, N Comito, D Kashtanov… - Applied and …, 2017‏ - journals.asm.org
Biofilm-associated bacteria are less sensitive to antibiotics than free-living (planktonic) cells.
Furthermore, with variations in the concentration of antibiotics throughout a biofilm, microbial …

Chitosan-based biomaterials: insights into chemistry, properties, devices, and their biomedical applications

S Petroni, I Tagliaro, C Antonini, M D'Arienzo, SF Orsini… - Marine drugs, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
Chitosan is a marine-origin polysaccharide obtained from the deacetylation of chitin, the
main component of crustaceans' exoskeleton, and the second most abundant in nature …

Polymeric surfactants: synthesis, properties, and links to applications

P Raffa, DAZ Wever, F Picchioni… - Chemical reviews, 2015‏ - ACS Publications
It is well-known that surfactants are molecules able to modify the surface properties of the
liquid in which they are introduced (usually water). The simultaneous presence of both …

Polysaccharide-based nanoparticles by chitosan and gum arabic polyelectrolyte complexation as carriers for curcumin

C Tan, J **e, X Zhang, J Cai, S **a - Food Hydrocolloids, 2016‏ - Elsevier
This study developed the polysaccharide-based nanoparticles by the polyelectrolyte
complexation between chitosan (CS) and gum arabic (GA) as novel delivery systems for …

Fundamentals and applications of chitosan

N Morin-Crini, E Lichtfouse, G Torri, G Crini - … agriculture reviews 35: chitin …, 2019‏ - Springer
Chitosan is a biopolymer obtained from chitin, one of the most abundant and renewable
material on Earth. Chitin is a primary component of cell walls in fungi, the exoskeletons of …

Synthesis and adsorption application of succinyl-grafted chitosan for the simultaneous removal of zinc and cationic dye from binary hazardous mixtures

GZ Kyzas, PI Siafaka, EG Pavlidou, KJ Chrissafis… - Chemical Engineering …, 2015‏ - Elsevier
In this work, a grafted (with carboxylic groups) chitosan material was synthesized and the
adsorption mechanism of a basic dye (Remarcyl Red TGL denoted as CR) and a heavy …

[HTML][HTML] Biomedical Activity of Chitin/Chitosan Based Materials—Influence of Physicochemical Properties Apart from Molecular Weight and Degree of N-Acetylation

J Kumirska, MX Weinhold, J Thöming, P Stepnowski - Polymers, 2011‏ - mdpi.com
The physicochemical nature of chitin and chitosan, which influences the biomedical activity
of these compounds, is strongly related to the source of chitin and the conditions of the …