Chitin hydrogel is recognized as a promising material for a variety of biomedical applications. Its biocompatibility and biodegradability make it useful in tissue repair, artificial organs, and wound ...

Today, a paper from a team around Prof. Trang Si Trung from Nha Trang University in Vietnam, in which they describe the solubilisation of chitosan using gaseous HCl, converting it into chitosan ...

Today, a review paper by our doctoral candidate Martin Bonin, our postdoctoral researchers Dr. Sruthi Sreekumar and Dr. Stefan Cord-Landwehr as well as Prof. Bruno Moerschbacher on the enzymatic ...

A material known as chitosan, made from crustacean shells, has been used to substitute petroleum by-products in food packaging. The environment is seriously affected by the use of food packaing: ...

Chitosan is an interesting polymer that has been used extensively in the medical field. It is either partially or fully deacetylated chitin. As chitin occurs naturally (in fungal cell walls and ...