Chitosan : properties and applications in bioengineering
- Author
- Diana Marcela Escobar Sierra
- Publication Year
- 2025
- Publisher
- Springer
- Language
- English
- Document Type
- Book
- Faculty / Subject Heading
- Medical Science
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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.
Keywords: 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
