[HTML][HTML] Natural products with preservative properties for enhancing the microbiological safety and extending the shelf-life of seafood: A review

RC Baptista, CN Horita, AS Sant'Ana - Food research international, 2020 - Elsevier
Seafood is highly perishable, presenting a rapid loss of its quality soon after capture.
Temperature is the critical parameter that impacts on seafood shelf-life reduction, allowing …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of acid type for chitosan dissolution on the characteristics and biodegradability of cornstarch/chitosan based films

JMF Pavoni, CL Luchese, IC Tessaro - International journal of biological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Biopolymers have received considerable attention in recent years given the environmental
concern related to the incorrect disposal of materials based on synthetic plastics. Starch and …

Development and characterization of antibacterial coatings on surgical sutures based on sodium carboxymethyl cellulose/chitosan/chlorhexidine

D Rakhmatullayeva, A Ospanova… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The layer-by-layer assembly (LBL) method was used in this work to apply antibacterial
coatings to the surface of sutures. The nanofilm was created using sodium carboxymethyl …

The role of multilayer electrospun poly (vinyl alcohol)/gelatin nanofibers loaded with fluconazole and cinnamaldehyde in the potential treatment of fungal keratitis

E Ilhan, S Cesur, RB Sulutas, E Pilavci… - European Polymer …, 2022 - Elsevier
Fungal keratitis is a severe corneal infection that causes irreversible damage to the cornea,
for which conventional drug treatments may be insufficient. With the new generation of drug …

Advances in carbohydrate-based polymers for the design of suture materials: a review

KM de la Harpe, PPD Kondiah, T Marimuthu… - Carbohydrate …, 2021 - Elsevier
Suture materials constitute one of the largest biomedical material groups with a huge global
market of $1.3 billion annually and employment in over 12 million procedures per year …

New solvent and coagulating agent for development of chitosan fibers by wet spinning

G Mohammadkhani, S Kumar Ramamoorthy… - Polymers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Adipic acid was evaluated as a novel solvent for wet spinning of chitosan fibers. A solvent
with two carboxyl groups could act as a physical crosslinker between the chitosan chains …

Pure Chitosan Biomedical Textile Fibers from Mixtures of Low-and High-Molecular Weight Bidisperse Polymer Solutions: Processing and Understanding of …

FE Bentley, R Passieux, L David… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Natural polymers, as extracted from biomass, may exhibit large macromolecular
polydispersity. We investigated the impact of low molar mass chitosan (LMW, DPw~ 115) on …

Influence of macromolecules conformation of chitosan on its graft polymerization with vinyl monomers and the copolymer properties

KV Apryatina, EK Tkachuk, LA Smirnova - Carbohydrate polymers, 2020 - Elsevier
The conformational states of chitosan macromolecules in solutions and their influence on
the" grafting from" polymerization of 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate and N-vinylpyrrolidone on …

Pure chitosan-based fibers manufactured by a wet spinning lab-scale process using ionic liquids

I Kuznik, I Kruppke, C Cherif - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Ionic liquids offer alternative methods for the sustainable processing of natural biopolymers
like chitosan. The ionic liquid 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium acetate (BmimOAc) was …

N-acetyl-D-glucosamine-loaded chitosan filaments biodegradable and biocompatible for use as absorbable surgical suture materials

MC da Silva, HN da Silva, RC Alves Leal Cruz… - Materials, 2019 - mdpi.com
The aim of this study was to prepare chitosan (CS) filaments incorporated with N-acetyl-D-
Glucosamine (GlcNAc), using the wet spinning method, in order to combine the GlcNAc …