Preparation and characterization of α-chitin whisker-reinforced chitosan nanocomposite films with or without heat treatment

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Plasticized polylactic acid nanocomposite films with cellulose and chitin nanocrystals prepared using extrusion and compression molding with two cooling rates : effects on mechanical, thermal and optical properties (2016, background): “However, chitin in nanosize has been more often used in other polymeric matrix such as poly(caprolactone) [8,9], chitosan [10,11], natural rubber [12] and starch [13].”
Nanocomposites for food packaging applications (2009, background): “Sriupayo et al. (2005) added chitin whiskers to chitosan films, and observed that the whiskers improving chitosan tensile strength until a whisker content of 2.96%, while higher increases of whiskers contents resulted in decreasing strength.”
Preparation of Bionanomaterials and their Polymer Nanocomposites from Waste and Biomass (2010, background): “Rujiravanit and coworkers [ 74 ] also showed the size of chitin whisker from shrimp shells by using TEM.”
Different routes to turn chitin into stunning nano-objects (2015, background): “materials like crab [46–53], shrimp [20,54–60] and lobster [61] shells, squid pen [11] and riftia tubes [62,63] (Table 1).”