Chitin and Chitosan: Functional Biopolymers from Marine Crustaceans

By K. Kurita. Marine Biotechnology, 2006

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Different routes to turn chitin into stunning nano-objects (2015, background): “Moreover, chitin nano-objects have high aspect ratio, high surface area, low density and reactive surface (–OH and –NHCOCH3 groups, and residual –NH2 groups) that facilitates surface functionalization [3,4,8,9,12,13,17–19].”
Turning polysaccharides into hydrophobic materials: a critical review. Part 2. Hemicelluloses, chitin/chitosan, starch, pectin and alginates (2010, background): “In addition to this common reactivity, they display the remarkable feature associated with the presence of primary amino groups, which provide many more routes for chemical modification, such as quaternization, formation of Schiff bases and other NH2-specific reactions (Kurita 2006).”
A Biopolymer Chitosan and Its Derivatives as Promising Antimicrobial Agents against Plant Pathogens and Their Applications in Crop Protection (2011, background): “For chitin production, the raw materials most abundantly available are the shells of crab, shrimp, and prawn (6970%) [16, 19, 27].”
Chitin Nanostructures in Living Organisms (2011, background): “These results obtained from phylogenetically distant species confirm that chitin synthesis is an ancestral feature of ciliated protozoa (Mulish and Hausmann 1989; Landers 1991). An exhaustive search of the crystal structure of beta-chitin recently made by Yui et al. (2007) confirmed the original str”