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The second edition of Chitin underscores the important factors for standardizing chitin processing and characterization. It captures the essential interplay between chitin's assets and limitations as a biomaterial, placing the past promises of chitin in perspective, addressing its present realities and offering insight into what is required to realize chitin's destiny (including its derivative, chitosan) as a biomaterial of the twenty-first century. This book is an ideal guide for both industrialists and researchers with a vested interest in commercializing chitin.
- An update on the research since 2001 as it pertains to the biomaterials and biomedical applications of chitin and chitosan
- An expanded discussion on positioning chitin and chitosan for biomedical applications
- Presents regulatory aspects of chitin and chitosan
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About the Author:
Dr. Eugene Khor, Chiticore Enterprises Inc. Victoria, Canada.
Review:
Thomas Heinze, Bergische Universität, Germany
"The book will serve people to become familiar with this particular area of biopolymer research and application and provides also practitioners and experts useful information in the field."
POLYMER NEWS
D.F. Williams, University of Liverpool
"...a book well worth consulting if chitin and chitosan play, or could play, any role in a readers medical technology interests."
Biomaterials, 23
"The book will serve people to become familiar with this particular area of biopolymer research and application and provides also practitioners and experts useful information in the field."
POLYMER NEWS
D.F. Williams, University of Liverpool
"...a book well worth consulting if chitin and chitosan play, or could play, any role in a readers medical technology interests."
Biomaterials, 23
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- PublisherElsevier
- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 0081014252
- ISBN 13 9780081014257
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number2
- Number of pages154
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