Applications and perspectives of quaternized cellulose, chitin and chitosan: A review

KX Huang, LY Zhou, JQ Chen, N Peng… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Recently, increasing attention has been paid to natural polysaccharides for their low cost,
biocompatibility and biodegradability. Quaternization is a modification method to improve …

Quaternary ammonium salts of chitosan. A critical overview on the synthesis and properties generated by quaternization

BI Andreica, X Cheng, L Marin - European Polymer Journal, 2020 - Elsevier
The quaternary ammonium salts of chitosan are water soluble derivatives which keep the
promise for real life applications in a large realm of biomedical fields, such as antimicrobial …

Chitosan derivatives as carriers for drug delivery and biomedical applications

S Manna, A Seth, P Gupta, G Nandi… - ACS Biomaterials …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Over the past few decades, chitosan (CS) has gained the attention of researchers
investigating newer biomaterial-based carriers for drugs in pharmaceutical and biomedical …

Green synthesis of antibacterial and cytotoxic silver nanoparticles by Piper nigrum seed extract and development of antibacterial silver based chitosan nanocomposite

P Kanniah, P Chelliah, JR Thangapandi… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
In the present study, we have used seed extract of P. nigrum as an effective reducing agent
for the synthesis of silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) and silver based chitosan nanocomposite …

Antibiotics in food chain: The consequences for antibiotic resistance

SB Kumar, SR Arnipalli, O Ziouzenkova - Antibiotics, 2020 - mdpi.com
Antibiotics have been used as essential therapeutics for nearly 100 years and, increasingly,
as a preventive agent in the agricultural and animal industry. Continuous use and misuse of …

Biomedical applications of quaternized chitosan

K Pathak, SK Misra, A Sehgal, S Singh, S Bungau… - Polymers, 2021 - mdpi.com
The natural polymer chitosan is the second most abundant biopolymer on earth after chitin
and has been extensively explored for preparation of versatile drug delivery systems. The …

Green engineering of TMC-CMS nanoparticles decorated graphene sheets for targeting M. tuberculosis

MHA Elella, ES Goda, HM Abdallah… - Carbohydrate …, 2023 - Elsevier
Our current work intends to primarily engineer a new type of antibacterial composite by
preparing a highly biocompatible graphene sheet decorated with TMC-CMS IPNs …

Synthesis of a multifunctional phosphorus/silicon flame retardant via an industrial feasible technology

M Yu, T Zhang, J Li, J Tan, X Zhu - ACS Sustainable Chemistry & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
High-performance and multifunctional epoxy resins are in increasing demand in the
booming electrical and electronic fields; however, the complexity and high cost of the …

In vivo bio-distribution and acute toxicity evaluation of greenly synthesized ultra-small gold nanoparticles with different biological activities

FS Aljohani, MT Hamed, BA Bakr, YH Shahin… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Ultra-small gold nanoparticles (Au-NPs)“≤ 10 nm diameters” have potent biomedical
applications. Hence, the present study aimed to greenly synthesize ultra-small gold …

One-pot green synthesis of chitosan biguanidine nanoparticles for targeting M. tuberculosis

HM Abdallah, MHA Elella, MM Abdel-Aziz - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Tuberculosis (TB) is considered as one of the most fatal infectious diseases nowadays.
Several traditional anti-tuberculosis drugs like isoniazid have been largely applied; …