Applications of Chitin and Chitosan

The main applications of chitin and chitosan are summarized below (Table 6.3)  

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UrbanczykGW (1997) In Goosen MFA (ed) Applications of Chitin and Chitosan. Technomic, Basel, p. 281... 

Krajewska, B. (2004) Application of chitin-and chitosan-based materials for enzyme immobilizations a review. Enz. Microb. Technol., 35, 126. 

Sawayanagi et al. [301] reported the fluidity and compressibility of combined powders, viz., lactose/chitin, lactose/chitosan, potato starch/chitin, potato starch/chitosan as well as the disintegration properties of tablets made from these powders in comparison with those of combined powders of lactose/MCC and potato starch/MCC. This was done in order to develop direct compression dilutents as a part of their studies on pharmaceutical applications of chitin and chitosan. 

Goosen, M.F.A., Application of Chitin and Chitosan, CHIPS, Weimar, TX, 1997. 

Goosen MFA (1997) Applications of chitin and chitosan. Technomic Publishers, NY... 

Shahidi, F., Arachchi, J.K.V., and Jeon, Y.-J. 1999. Food application of chitin and chitosan. Trends Food Sci. Technol. 10, 37-51. 

M. Rinaudo, M. Milas and J. Desbrieres, in Applications of Chitin and Chitosan, Technomic Publishers, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1997, p. 89. 

The aim of this chapter was to present an overview of the state-of-the-art knowledge and technical applications of chitin and chitosan. Numerous papers have been published on a wide range of the properties and applications of chitin and chitosan, forcing us to make a selection from the most significant results obtained by many groups working around the world therefore, we have included an extensive bibliography of recent studies of both basic and applied chitosan, the most important derivative of chitin, which is difficult to... 

Khor E, Lim LY (2003) Implantable applications of chitin and chitosan. Biomaterials 24 2339-2349... 

Sathirakul K, How NC, Stevens WF et al (1996) Application of chitin and chitosan bandages for wound-healing. In Domard A, Jeauniaux C, Muzzarelli R, Roberts G (eds) Proceedings of the first international conference of the European Chitin Society. Advances in chitin science, vol 1. Jacques Andre Fhiblisher, Lyon... 

Li Q, Dunn ET, Grandmaison EW, Goosen MFA (1997) Applications and properties of chitosan. In Goosen MFA (ed) Application of chitin and chitosan. Technomic Publishing Company, Lancaster, pp 3-29... 

H. Rudiger and H.-J. Gabius, Plant lectins Occurrence, biochemistry, functions and applications, Gly CO conjugate J., 18 (2001) 589-613 for recent applications of chitin, see, for instance, Y. Kato, H. Onishi, and Y. Machida, Application of chitin and chitosan derivatives in the pharmaceutical field, Curr. Pharm. Biotechnol, 4 (2003) 303-309. 

Ludlow, M.E. 2001. World applications of chitin and chitosan. Presented at the annual meeting of the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT). New Orleans, LA. Session 82, Food byproducts and waste utilization. 

Kato Y, Onishi H, Machida Y. Application of chitin and chitosan derivatives in the pharmaceutical field. Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology. October 2003 4(5) 303-309. PubMed PMID 14529420. 

Jayakumar, R. Menon, D. Manzoor, K. Nair, S.V. Tamura, H. Biomedical applications of chitin and chitosan based nanomaterials—A short review. Carbohydr. Polym. 2010, 82 (2), 227-232. 

Kurita, K. (1995). Chemistry and application of chitin and chitosan, PoJvm. Dearad. Stab.. 59,117-120. 

Hudson, S.M. (1999) The applications of chitin and chitosan to fiber and textile products, in Advances in Chitin Science, vol. 3 (eds R.H. Chen and H.C. Chen), National Taiwan Ocean University, Ttiiwrm, pp. 80-87. 

Khan, W., Prithiviraj, B. and Smith, DL. (2002) Effect of foliar application of chitin and chitosan oligosaccharides on photosynthesis of maize and soybean. Photosynthetica, 40, 621-624. 

Figure 19 Applications of chitin and chitosan in biomedicine and other industries.

Other applications of chitin and chitosan include the spinning of fibres, preferably with the latter because of its higher solubility [223] as additives in inks and dyes for the improvement of their rheological properties and colourfastness [224] and in the coating of fabrics to control their shrinkage and enhance their dyefastness [223]. 

Shahidi F., Arachi J.K., Jeon Y.J., Food applications of chitin and chitosan. Trends Food ScL Technol., 10, 1999,37-51. 

Hudson, S.M., Application of chitin and chitosan as fiber and textile chemictils, in Advances in Chitin Science, Eds. Domard A., Roberts G.A.F. and Varum K.M., Jacques Andre Publisher, Lyon, 1997, Volunie II, pp. 590-599. 

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