Chitosan : properties and applications in bioengineering

Chitosan : properties and applications in bioengineering

المؤلف
Diana Marcela Escobar Sierra
سنة النشر
2025
الناشر
Springer
لغة الملف
انكليزي
نوع الملف
Book
تصنيف الكتاب
Medical Science

Presents a review of chitosan, including information regarding its structure, main properties, available sources, extraction, and processing techniques. It presents the different applications of chitosan as a biomaterial in fields such as medicine and the agricultural, cosmetology, pharmaceutical, and food industries to have readers obtain a more technical vision of the current use of this biopolymer.


الكلمات المفتاحية: Chitosan - Agroindustry applications / Chitosan - Characterization / Chitosan applications / Chitosan extraction / Chitosan food applications / Chitosan - Medical applications / Chitosan - Molecular structure / Chitosan - Pharmaceutical applications / Chitosan - Pharmacological applications / Chitosan - Properties / Biomaterials / Biomedical engineering / Bioengineering, / Nanotechnology