Characterization of chitosan and chitin produced from silkworm crysalides

By Alexandre T. Paulino, J. I. Simionato, J. C. Garcia, J. Nozaki. 2006

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New chitin, chitosan, and O-carboxymethyl chitosan sources from resting eggs of Daphnia longispina (Crustacea); with physicochemical characterization, and antimicrobial and antioxidant activities (2014, background): “When the surface morphologies of chitosan obtained from crab, shrimp and silkworm in the SEM figures were examined, randomly-scattered pores and microfibrillar crystalline structures at nano-sizes were observed [51,54,56].”
Chitosan Nanocomposite Coatings for Food, Paints, and Water Treatment Applications (2019, background): “Chitosan has been extracted from shrimp shells [14–17], fish scale of Labeo rohita [18], squid ladius (Loligo vulgaris) [19], locust waste [20], ho ey b es waste [21], fung like Aspergillus niger [22], silkworm chrysalides [23], fishery waste [18], and blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) waste [24], amo”
A Biopolymer Chitosan and Its Derivatives as Promising Antimicrobial Agents against Plant Pathogens and Their Applications in Crop Protection (2011, background): “[52] A.”