Production, Properties, and Some New Applications of Chitin and Its Derivatives

By J. Synowiecki, Nadia Ali Abdul Quawi Al-Khateeb. Critical reviews in food science and nutrition, 2003

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Subfields: Biomaterials, Molecular Biology

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Citations in the corpus

• Recent developments in polysaccharide-based materials used as adsorbents in wastewater treatment (2005, neutral): “Properties and applications of chitin and chitosan have been reviewed by Synowiecki and Al-Khateeb [50] and Ravi Kumar [51].”
• Chitin and Chitosan Preparation from Marine Sources. Structure, Properties and Applications (2015, background): “Chitosan was shown to have several advantages over other disinfectants, as it possesses a higher antimicrobial activity, a broader spectrum of activity, a higher kill rate, and lower toxicity towards mammalian cells [174,175].”
• A Biopolymer Chitosan and Its Derivatives as Promising Antimicrobial Agents against Plant Pathogens and Their Applications in Crop Protection (2011, background): “[40] J.”
• Comparison of physicochemical properties of chitins isolated from an insect (Melolontha melolontha) and a crustacean species (Oniscus asellus) (2014, positive): “…chitin and chitosan find applications in the textile industry, as a food preservative, in controlled drug release, wound healing, gene delivery and tissue engineering (Synowiecki and Al-Khateeb 2003; Rinaudo 2006; Muzzarelli et al. 2007; Aranaz et al. 2009; Park and Kim 2010; Muzzarelli 2011).”
• Unconventional Approach for Demineralization of Deproteinized Crustacean Shells for Chitin Production (2007, background): “Synowiecki and Al-Kateeb([13]) stated that full demineralization is possible when the amount of acid is stoichiometrically greater than the mineral content.”
• Nano-engineering of construction materials using molecular dynamics simulations: Prospects and challenges (2018, background): “The chitin and its derivatives have been used in the design of bioinspired materials [115,127].”