Environmental and sustainability issues have received increasing attention in recent years.
As a natural biopolymer, chitosan has been developed as a sustainable alternative to …

Over the last few years, several attempts have been made to replace petrochemical products
with renewable and biodegradable components. The most challenging part of this approach …

There has been much effort to provide eco-friendly and biodegradable materials for the next
generation of composite products owing to global environmental concerns and increased …

Nanotechnology has reached to almost every sector and amazed the world by offering
various potential applications in these sectors. Since nanostructure materials have been …

Chitin is the structural material of crustaceans, insects, and fungi, and is the second most
abundant biopolymer after cellulose on earth. Chitosan, a deacetylated derivative of chitin …

We report the preparation of both control chitosan and magnetic chitosan beads as
biosorbents using chitosan as matrix and magnetite (Fe 3 O 4) nanoparticles as …

Chitosan is a biopolymer that is natural, biodegradable, and relatively low price. Chitosan
has been attracting interest as a matrix of nanocomposites due to new properties for various …

Zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles (NPs), which are declared as generally recognized as safe
by the US Food and Drug Administration, is discussed in this review to reveal their beneficial …

In the context of emerging global concerns with synthetic plastic packaging, alternative
natural biodegradable packaging materials are gaining increasing attention for food …

Innovations and research on packaging materials are in a fast-growing stage to make them
suitable for advanced packaging innovations and sustainability efforts. Biological …