Chitin, a fascinating biopolymer found in living organisms, fulfills current demands of availability, sustainability, biocompatibility, biodegradability, functionality, and renewability …
This review considers the most recent developments in supramolecular and supraparticle structures obtained from natural, renewable biopolymers as well as their disassembly and …
Some of the most abundant biomass on earth is sequestered in fibrous biopolymers like cellulose, chitin, and silk. These types of natural materials offer unique and striking …
Nanochitin and nanochitosan (with random‐copolymer‐based multiscale architectures of glucosamine and N‐acetylglucosamine units) have recently attracted immense attention for …
J Hou, BE Aydemir, AG Dumanli - … Transactions of the …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Chitin is one of the most abundant biopolymers, and it has adopted many different structural conformations using a combination of different natural processes like biopolymerization …
Cellulose nanofibrils (CNFs) show high modulus and strength and are already used in industrial applications. Mechanical properties of neat CNF films or CNF–polymer matrix …
C Chen, Q Wu, Z Wan, Q Yang, Z Xu, D Li, Y Jin… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
We introduce a facile approach toward fully biobased single-use materials based on chitin nanofibers (ChNFs). The chitin is sourced directly from ocean biomass residues (crab shells) …
One of the key breakthroughs enabling flexible electronics with novel form factors is the deployment of flexible polymer films in place of brittle glass, which is one of the major …
E Kaya, LN Kahyaoglu, G Sumnu - International Journal of Biological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Composite films were prepared by combining different concentrations of curcumin with chitin and glucan complexes (CGCs) extracted from Agaricus bisporus via a solution casting …