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Chitosan loses innate beneficial properties after being dissolved in acetic acid: Supported by detailed molecular modeling
(American Chemical Society, 2020)
Chitosan, which is obtained via deacetylation of chitin, has a variety of uses in agriculture, food, medicine, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics. Industrial chitosan is in a gel form, which is produced by dissolving in acetic ...
Production and characterization of chitosan-fungal extract films
(Elsevier Ltd, 2020)
A fungal extract obtained from an edible species (Tricholoma terreum) was used to produce chitosan-based films. Fungal extracts were analyzed using HPLC and chitosan-based films were characterized with FT-IR, SEM, DSC and ...
Natural β-chitin-protein complex film obtained from waste razor shells for transdermal capsaicin carrier
(Elsevier B.V., 2020)
In the literature, the produced β-chitin samples are in powder or flake forms but there is no natural β-chitin based film. Also, the commercially available transdermal patches are produced from synthetic polymers. In this ...