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Chitosan Nanocomposites Bionanomechanical Applications
The book presents chitosan and chitosan-based nanocomposites and their extensive applications in medical science. Utilization of chitosan...
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Interfacial Properties of Chitosan-PEO Graft Oligomers: Surface Competition with Unmodified Chitosan Oligomers
Oligomers of chitosan carrying 45 units long poly(ethylene oxide), PEO, chains grafted to the C-6 position of the sugar units were prepared using...
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Chitosan-based Hydrogels in Drug Delivery
Hydrogels are three-dimensional cross-linked hydrophilic polymers that are able to absorb large quantities of water and swell. They have various...
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Functionalized Chitosan and Biomedical Devices
Chitosan is the polymerPolymers that results from the deacetylationDeacetylation of chitinChitin taken from the exoskeleton of...
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Chitosan: A Smart Biomaterial
Chitosan is the second most abundant biopolymerBiopolymer after celluloseCellulose for which it has been given a special class of attention by...
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Chitosan-Based Nanofertilizer: Types, Formulations, and Plant Promotion Mechanism
Global agriculturists have been looking for ways to mitigate the problem of increasing demand for food supply. Nanofertilizers serve as an effective...
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Chitin/Chitosan Based Superabsorbent Polymers
Chitin/chitosan biopolymers having significant structural capability for mechanical and chemical modifications to produce innovative properties,...
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Chitin and Chitosan for Packaging Materials
In recent years, the development of biopolymer-based packaging materials is being practiced at a higher rate. The use of biopolymer-based packaging...
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Biological and Chemical Aspects of Chitosan
ChitosanChitosan is a polysaccharidePolysaccharide that is made from chitinChitin—a matter forming from the operation of treating shrimp shells, as...
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Chitosan Chemistry: Relevance to the Biomedical Sciences
Chitin is well characterized in terms of analytical chemistry, is purified from accompanying compounds, and derivatized in a variety of fashions....
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Chitosan/Gold Nanoparticle Hydrogels for Drug Delivery and Tissue Engineering Applications
In recent years, materials for biomedical applications have taken on great relevance, including applications related to drug-controlled release and...
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Antibacterial Response of Nanostructured Chitosan Hybrid Materials
In recent years, nanotechnology has gained much interest due to its potential application in different sectors. Among the different nanomaterials,...
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Nanostructured Chitosan Hybrid Materials for Tissue Engineering Applications
ChitosanChitosan, a natural polysaccharidePolysaccharide, is derived from chitinChitin, and has unique antimicrobial activityAntimicrobial activity,...
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Chitosan-Based Nanocomposites as Efficient Wound Dressing Materials
Wound dressingsWound dressings play a key role in wound healingWound healing with conventional wound dressings typically based on synthetic...
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Chitosan Nanoparticles: A Potential Biomedical Device
Chitosan nanoparticlesChitosan nanoparticles (chitosanChitosan-based nanoparticles; chitosan nanostructuresChitosan nanostructures; ChNPs) constitute...
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Development of Microstructured Chitosan Nanocapsules with Immobilized Lipase
This study developed three microstructured chitosan nanocapsules with immobilized lipase to explore chitosan-lipase interactions at different pH...
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Graft Polymerization of 5-Vinyltetrazole onto Chitosan
AbstractPolymerization of 5-vinyltetrazole under conditions of radical initiation in aqueous media in the presence of chitosan gave network graft...
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Formulation and characterization of lignin modified chitosan beads
A simple manual flow injection method was used to formulate chitosan-lignin composite beads in a ratio of 1:1. The beads were then characterized...
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A Medico-Biological Approach to Chitosan Bionanocomposites
Significance of biopolymersBiopolymer like chitosan and its nanosized derivatives and the procedure of their implementation in various disciplines,...
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Biomedical Applications of Chitosan-Based Nanostructured Composite Materials
ChitosanChitosan is a natural polysaccharidePolysaccharide that has demonstrated distinct characteristics for many applications, especially in the...