Current trends in food packaging systems are toward biodegradable polymer materials,
especially the food biopolymer films made from polysaccharides and proteins, but they are …

Chitin is the second most important natural polymer in the world. The main sources exploited
are two marine crustaceans, shrimp and crabs. Our objective is to appraise the state of the …

Chitin is an abundantly available polysaccharide and is the primary structural component of
crustacean shells. Nanochitin can be made by extracting chitin from crustacean shell waste …

Chitin, a widely available natural polymer, is the fundamental structural component of
crustacean shells. The crustacean processing industry produces a lot of shell waste each …

Chitin is a kind of natural macromolecule material which was first discovered in mushrooms
and was widely found in the shells of crustaceans and arthropods, the cell walls of fungi …

Due to its intractable structure and inherent insoluble nature, chitin was for a long time an
underutilized resource. The increasing interest in the use of chitin as a source of …

To improve the hemostatic function of chitosan nanofiber mats, we studied the synergetic
effects of gelatin blending and porosity control. Gelatin-blended-chitosan (Chi-Gel) …

Added-value bionanocomposite films were obtained using exclusively oceanic biomass, ie
chitin nanofillers (nanocrystals-CHNC and nanofibers-CHNF) and chitosan (CS) isolated …

Fiber mats were obtained by using a modified rotary-jet spinning system, which allows a
forced air flow produced by an air compressor to interfere with the polymer jets. The main …

This paper discusses the influence of the needle–collector distance (constructive parameter
of the electrospinning process) upon the characteristics of the nanofibers from the view point …