Chitin, chitosan, and nanochitin: extraction, synthesis, and applications

M Kozma, B Acharya, R Bissessur - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Crustacean shells are a sustainable source of chitin. Extracting chitin from crustacean shells
is ongoing research, much of which is devoted to devising a sustainable process that yields …

The application of mucoadhesive chitosan nanoparticles in nasal drug delivery

S Shim, HS Yoo - Marine drugs, 2020 - mdpi.com
Mucosal delivery of antigens can induce both humoral and cellular immune responses.
Particularly, the nasal cavity is a strongly inductive site for mucosal immunity among several …

[HTML][HTML] Crustacean shell waste derived chitin and chitin nanomaterials for application in agriculture, food, and health–A review

S Ngasotter, KAM Xavier, MM Meitei… - Carbohydrate Polymer …, 2023 - Elsevier
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 …

Graphene oxide-manganese ferrite (GO-MnFe2O4) nanocomposite: One-pot hydrothermal synthesis and its use for adsorptive removal of Pb2+ ions from aqueous …

M Verma, A Kumar, KP Singh, R Kumar… - Journal of Molecular …, 2020 - Elsevier
Herein, we showed that the graphene oxide with manganese ferrite (GO-MnFe 2 O 4)
possess great adsorption properties for the selective Pb 2+ ions removal from the aqueous …

Synthesis and characterization of Schiff-base based chitosan-g-glutaraldehyde/NaMMTNPs-APTES for removal Pb2+ and Hg2+ ions

N Nematidil, M Sadeghi, S Nezami, H Sadeghi - Carbohydrate polymers, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper, a new Schiff base based on porous chitosan-glutaraldehyde/montmorrilonite
nanoparticles modified with 3-aminopropyl triethoxysilane (PCG/NaMMTNPs-APTES) …

Recent progress in preparation and application of nano‐chitin materials

X Yang, J Liu, Y Pei, X Zheng… - Energy & Environmental …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Magnetic Porous Polymers Prepared via High Internal Phase Emulsions for Efficient Removal of Pb2+ and Cd2+

H Zhu, X Tan, L Tan, H Zhang, H Liu… - ACS Sustainable …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Magnetic porous polymers (MPPs) were successfully fabricated by a facile strategy of the
high internal phase emulsions (HIPEs) technique. The microstructure, chemical composition …

[HTML][HTML] Utilization of low-cost sugarcane waste for the adsorption of aqueous Pb (II): kinetics and isotherm studies

A Hashem, CO Aniagor, GM Taha, M Fikry - Current Research in Green …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this study, the sorption capacity of local sugarcane waste (SW) for aqueous Pb (II) was
investigated. The SW was fully characterized using Scanning microscopy (SEM), Energy …

High selectivity and effectiveness for removal of tetracycline and its related drug resistance in food wastewater through schwertmannite/graphene oxide catalyzed …

S Ma, J Jing, P Liu, Z Li, W Jin, B Xie, Y Zhao - Journal of hazardous …, 2020 - Elsevier
Selectively and effectively for removal of tetracycline (TC) and its related antibiotic resistance
gene from food wastewater matrix with high-salt and high COD characteristics is highly …

Fabrication of xanthate-modified chitosan/poly (N-isopropylacrylamide) composite hydrogel for the selective adsorption of Cu (II), Pb (II) and Ni (II) metal ions

S Wu, F Wang, H Yuan, L Zhang, S Mao, X Liu… - … Research and Design, 2018 - Elsevier
A novel xanthate-modified chitosan/poly (N-isopropylacrylamide)(X-CS/NIPAAm) composite
hydrogel was fabricated by a facile two-step method for the selective adsorption of Cu (II), Pb …