Chitosan-based materials: Preparation, modification and application

J Wang, S Zhuang - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022 - Elsevier
Chitosan is a natural biopolymer with a modifiable structure and abundant function groups,
moreover, it can be processed into various shapes and sizes, making it suitable for various …

Applications of chitosan in environmental remediation: A review

P Pal, A Pal, K Nakashima, BK Yadav - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
Environmental biotechnology is the use of biotechnology to develop and regulate biological
systems for the remediation of environmental contamination. Nature has gifted ample …

Ice templating soft matter: fundamental principles and fabrication approaches to tailor pore structure and morphology and their biomedical applications

H Joukhdar, A Seifert, T Jüngst, J Groll… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Porous scaffolds are widely used in biomedical applications where pore size and
morphology influence a range of biological processes, including mass transfer of solutes …

Graphene-based materials for capacitive deionization

P Liu, T Yan, L Shi, HS Park, X Chen, Z Zhao… - Journal of Materials …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Capacitive deionization is an emerging technology for energy-efficient water desalination
and has attracted more and more attention in recent years. The capacitive deionization …

Emerging chitin and chitosan nanofibrous materials for biomedical applications

F Ding, H Deng, Y Du, X Shi, Q Wang - Nanoscale, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Over the past several decades, we have witnessed significant progress in chitosan and
chitin based nanostructured materials. The nanofibers from chitin and chitosan with …

Ionic liquids in the processing and chemical modification of chitin and chitosan for biomedical applications

SS Silva, JF Mano, RL Reis - Green Chemistry, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
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 …

Controlled freezing and freeze drying: a versatile route for porous and micro‐/nano‐structured materials

L Qian, H Zhang - Journal of Chemical Technology & …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Freeze drying is a process whereby solutions are frozen in a cold bath and then the frozen
solvents are removed via sublimation under vacuum, leading to formation of porous …

Chitosan functionalized ionic liquid as a recyclable biopolymer-supported catalyst for cycloaddition of CO 2

J Sun, J Wang, W Cheng, J Zhang, X Li, S Zhang… - Green …, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Development of efficient, cheap and recyclable catalysts for a reaction under green reaction
conditions is still a very attractive topic. In this work, the cycloaddition reactions of CO2 with …

Removal of chromium from industrial effluents using nanotechnology: a review

S Mitra, A Sarkar, S Sen - Nanotechnology for Environmental Engineering, 2017 - Springer
The presence of chromium in industrial effluents has become a huge problem worldwide as
hexavalent chromium is highly toxic to animals due to its ability to generate reactive oxygen …

B/N-codoped carbon nanosheets derived from the self-assembly of chitosan–amino acid gels for greatly improved supercapacitor performances

L Yang, D Wu, T Wang, D Jia - ACS applied materials & interfaces, 2020 - ACS Publications
This work presents an efficient strategy for preparing chitosan (CS)-derived boron (B),
nitrogen (N)-codoped porous carbon (C) nanosheets by using three amino acids with …