Chitin-based materials are one of the most promising abundant polysaccharide biopolymers
for developing constructs with advanced functions due to their unique properties; especially …

Chitin and chitosan, typical marine polysaccharides as well as abundant biomass resources,
are attracting a great deal of attention because of their distinctive biological and …

The main source of commercial chitosan is the extensive deacetylation of its parent polymer
chitin. It is present in green algae, the cell walls or fungi and in the exoskeleton of …

Tissue engineering is growing in developing new technologies focused on providing
effective solutions to degenerative pathologies that affect different types of connective …

This review provides an analysis of experimental results on the study of alkaline
heterogeneous deacetylation of chitin obtained by the authors and also published in the …

Alternatives to efficient viral vectors in gene therapy are desired because of their poor safety
profiles. Chitosan is a promising non-viral nucleotide delivery vector because of its …

Soft tissue reconstructs require materials that form three-dimensional (3-D) structures
supportive to cell proliferation and regenerative processes. Polysaccharides, due to their …

A facile, solid-state mechanochemical method was developed for the synthesis of low
molecular weight chitosan (LMWC) in one step from chitin and crude shrimp shell powders …

Chitosan is a complex linear amino co-polymer which, depending on a great variety of
parameters, exhibits a more or less amphiphilic structure. This makes this polysaccharide …

In this study, chitosan was extracted from Metapenaeus stebbingi shells. In order to
determine physicochemical characteristics of the extracted chitosan, the yield, moisture and …