Tanning enzymatic hydrolysis

Tan, E. W. Y. and Lee, V. R. (2002). Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Prawn Shell Waste for the Purification of Chitin. Final report R D project supervised by Hall GM, Department of chemical Engineering, Loughborough University, UK. 

In most recent studies, new processes have been tried out to produce starch nanoparticles by (i) precipitation of amorphous starch by Ma et al and Tan et al. (ii) combining complex formation and enzymatic hydrolysis by Kim and Lim, yielding nanocrystals i.e. complexed with lipids), and... 

Niu K, Chen P, Zhang X, Tan WS (2009) Enhanced enzymatic hydrolysis of rice straw pretreated by alkali assisted with photocatalysis technology. J Chem Technol Biotechnol 84 1240-1245... 

Starch nanocrystals or nanoparticles can be prepared principally by four different methodologies, (1) by hydrolysis including acid or enzymatic hydrolysis (nanocrystals), (2) by regeneration using cocrystallization (Kim and Lim 2009), or cross-linking (Tan et al. 2009 Ma et al. 2008), and (3) using gamma radiation (Lamanna et al. 2013) mechanical treatment with a microfluidizer (Le Corre et al. 2010). 

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