Chitin, a fascinating biopolymer found in living organisms, fulfills current demands of
availability, sustainability, biocompatibility, biodegradability, functionality, and renewability …

The development of ideal wound dressing materials with excellent characteristics is
currently a major demand in wound therapy. In recent years, carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) …

This review considers the most recent developments in supramolecular and supraparticle
structures obtained from natural, renewable biopolymers as well as their disassembly and …

Active food packaging is crucial nowadays due to the rising consumer demands for less
processed and preservative-free foods. Also, due to growing concern and overuse of …

Nanochitin and nanochitosan (with random‐copolymer‐based multiscale architectures of
glucosamine and N‐acetylglucosamine units) have recently attracted immense attention for …

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

A novel intelligent film was developed by immobilizing 1%, 3% and 5% black rice bran
anthocyanins (BACNs) into oxidized-chitin nanocrystals (O-ChNCs)/chitosan (CS) matrix …

Carrageenan, a polysaccharide extracted from marine algae, is becoming increasingly
regarded as a promising renewable biomaterial that has strong potential as a substitute for …

Chitin, as the most abundant non-wood biopolymer on earth, exists widely in the shells of
crustaceans, the cell walls of fungi, and the cuticles of insects. It consists of N-acetyl-D …

In the present review, the possibilities for blending of commodities and bio-based and/or
biodegradable polymers for packaging purposes has been considered, limiting the analysis …