Over the last decade, numerous biopolymers have received more attention in medical
applications involving novel biomaterials because of their biocompatibility, biodegradability …

Restoration of environmental health is a major concern to the healthy sustenance of life on
Earth. Multidirectional efforts in this direction are envisaged to this common aim and the use …

Bioactive composite coatings based on hydroxypropyl methylcellulose (HPMC), broad-
spectrum food preservative nisin (Nisaplin®), and hydrophilic plasticizer glycerol were …

Biodegradable polymers with distinct composition can be used as antimicrobial carriers. To
judge their relative efficiency as antimicrobial carriers, release rates of fluorescently labeled …

The review is devoted to the current state of the investigation works concerning chitosan
functionalization with carboxylic acids and derivatives of them, including oxidized carbon …

The crustacean processing industry produces large quantities of waste by-products (up to
70%). Such wastes could be used as raw materials for producing chitosan, a polysaccharide …

Chitin and Chitosan are polysaccharides found abundantly in nature. The presence of these
polysaccharides is found largely in marine ecosystem next only to the plant source is …

Chitosan is a bio-functional polysaccharide that has a great potential for applications in
various fields owing to its chemical functional groups which can be easily modified to …

Chitosan is a unique polysaccharide, a copolymer of glucosamine and N-acetyl
glucosamine linked by β 1–4 glucosidic bonds obtained by deacetylation of chitin. This has …

Abstract [eng] Synthesis of Chitosan Nanoparticles from Mold Fungus Chitosan is a cationic
linear biopolymer composed of repeating units of D–glucosamine and N–acetyl–D …