Molecular weight effect on antimicrobial activity of chitosan treated cotton fabrics

By Y. Shin, D. Yoo, J. Jang. 2001

139 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Biomaterials, Organic Chemistry

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In Biomaterials

1. Yuan Gao
2. R. Cranston
3. S. Hudson
4. M. Civera
5. N. Acosta
6. C. Arias
7. A. Alcántara
8. I. Aranaz

In Organic Chemistry

1. Yuan Gao
2. R. Cranston

Citations in the corpus

• Recent Advances in Antimicrobial Treatments of Textiles (2008, background): “1% (w/v) against many common bacterial species, although the activity can be affected by its molecular weight and degree of deacetylation [86, 87, 88].”
• Chitosan: An Overview of Its Properties and Applications (2021, background): “Some studies claim that the antimicrobial activity of chitosan improves with the polymer size and have found that oligosaccharides have lower antimicrobial activity [67–69].”
• Antibacterial Properties of Cotton Fabrics Treated with Chitosan (2003, background): “Shin studied the effect on antibacterial activity of the molecular weight of various chitosans with similar degrees of deacetylation [6].”
• Review of Chitosan and Its Derivatives as Antimicrobial Agents and Their Uses as Textile Chemicals (2003, background): “Shin et al.[135] examined the MW effect on the antimicrobial activity of chitosantreated cotton fabrics.”