Recent advances in polymers and polymer composites for food packaging

M Zhang, GM Biesold, W Choi, J Yu, Y Deng… - Materials Today, 2022‏ - Elsevier
The growing world population, evolving urbanization, and globalization have created more
demand for food, which has increased challenges in food safety. Development and …

[HTML][HTML] Chitosan: a natural biopolymer with a wide and varied range of applications

CP Jiménez-Gómez, JA Cecilia - Molecules, 2020‏ - mdpi.com
Although chitin is of the most available biopolymers on Earth its uses and applications are
limited due to its low solubility. The deacetylation of chitin leads to chitosan. This biopolymer …

Seawater‐degradable polymers—fighting the marine plastic pollution

GX Wang, D Huang, JH Ji, C Völker… - Advanced …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Polymers shape human life but they also have been identified as pollutants in the oceans
due to their long lifetime and low degradability. Recently, various researchers have studied …

Chitosan films plasticized with choline-based deep eutectic solvents: UV shielding, antioxidant, and antibacterial properties

J Yu, S Xu, G Goksen, C Yi, P Shao - Food Hydrocolloids, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Deep eutectic solvents (DES) as plasticizers of chitosan film show great potential for food
packaging. This paper introduced some novel antioxidant and antibacterial films based on …

pH sensitive hydrogels in drug delivery: Brief history, properties, swelling, and release mechanism, material selection and applications

M Rizwan, R Yahya, A Hassan, M Yar, AD Azzahari… - Polymers, 2017‏ - mdpi.com
Improving the safety efficacy ratio of existing drugs is a current challenge to be addressed
rather than the development of novel drugs which involve much expense and time. The …

Application of polyvinyl alcohol/chitosan copolymer hydrogels in biomedicine: A review

K Zhang, Y Liu, X Shi, R Zhang, Y He, H Zhang… - International journal of …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Hydrogels is a hydrophilic, cross-linked polymer of three-dimensional network structures.
The application of hydrogels prepared from a single polymer in the biomedical field has …

A review on applications of chitosan-based Schiff bases

R Antony, T Arun, STD Manickam - International journal of biological …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Biopolymers have become very attractive as they are degradable, biocompatible, non-toxic
and renewable. Due to the intrinsic reactive amino groups, chitosan is vibrant in the midst of …

Electrophoretic deposition of chitosan-based composite coatings for biomedical applications: A review

E Avcu, FE Baştan, HZ Abdullah, MAU Rehman… - Progress in Materials …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Chitosan is one of the most widely used natural biopolymers for a great variety of biomedical
applications owing to its biocompatibility, biodegradability, and antibacterial activity, being …

Chitosan nanocomposite for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine: a review

P Gupta, S Sharma, S Jabin, S Jadoun - International journal of biological …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Regenerative medicine and tissue engineering have emerged as a multidisciplinary
promising field in the quest to address the limitations of traditional medical approaches. One …

Removal of various pollutants from water and wastewater by modified chitosan adsorbents

J Wang, S Zhuang - Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and …, 2017‏ - Taylor & Francis
Chitosan-based adsorbents have attracted increasing attention in water and wastewater
treatment in recent years due to its abundance and low price, as well as rich amino and …