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

Nature has a wide range of biological protection strategies that show resilience to impact
loading. These strategies also serve a certain amount of flexibility that contribute to body …

Insight into the hierarchical structures of carbohydrate nanofibrils such as chitin and
cellulose is important in order to exploit their unique geometrical features for materials …

Bottom-up synthesis strategies to construct nano-architectonic material exhibiting specific
properties by controlling the spatial distribution of the material units are challenging. Native …

The properties of aqueous suspensions of cellulose nanocrystals (CNC) and their casted
films are revised. The bio-nanoparticles are briefly introduced, including modifications of the …

Chitin can self-assemble into a liquid crystal phase with supramolecular chirality and
Bouligand structure, which is widely found in the exoskeletons of arthropods. However …

The chemical composition, structural features and bioactivities of chitosan derivatives were
studied and reported here. Chitin and chitosan was extracted by chemical methods and …

Petrochemical resources are non-renewable, which has impeded the development of
synthetic polymers. The poor degradability of synthetic polymers poses substantial …

Novel β-chitin nanocrystals (β-CNCs) were extracted from cuttlefish bone via
deproteinization and demineralization, followed by acid hydrolysis. As a new source of β …

A simple and fast method of enhancing silver nanoparticles in situ generation and
deposition on the surface of silk fabrics was proposed using a chitin whisker (WSK) and …