Advances in Marine Chitin and Chitosan

• Main Author: David Harding (Ed.) (auth)
• Other Authors: Hitoshi Sashiwa (Ed.) (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2015
• Subjects: Pharmacology; controlled drug delivery; chitosan; N-acetyl-D-glucosamine; chito-oligosaccharide; glucosamine; hydrogels; chemical modification; chitin
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Recently, biomass-based polymers from renewable resources have received increasing focus owing to the depletion of petroleum resources. Natural polysaccharides such as cellulose, hemicellulose, and starch are among the candidates from natural resources for biomass polysaccharide products including b...