Nano Chitosan Properties and Application to Textiles

Chitosan and Nano Chitosan Properties and Application to Textiles 

The Maharaja Sayajirao University ofBaroda, Vadodara, India Faculty of Textile Processing, 

Sarvajanik College of Engineering Technology, Surat, India 

Henri Braconot, director of Botanical Garden in Nancy [France] in 1811, first isolated a fibrous substance from the cell walls of mushroom, which he called FUNGINE. Later in 1823, Odier discovered that this compound is also one of the major constituents of the exoskeleton of insects and then he renamed as CHITIN [from Greek khiton meaning tunic or envelope). Prof. C. Rouget in 1859 prepared a compound from chitin by treatment with concentrated caustic solution and observed that, unlike chitin, the resulting substance dissolved in acids. This compound was then named CHITOSAN [pronounced as kite-o-san) by Hoppe-Seller In 1894 [1, 2]. 

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