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Chitosan : Properties and Applications in Bioengineering / by Diana Marcela Escobar Sierra.
Springer Nature - Synthesis Collection of Technology Collection 14 (2025) Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Escobar Sierra, Diana Marcela.
- Series:
- Synthesis Lectures on Engineering, Science, and Technology, 2690-0327
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biomaterials.
- Biomedical engineering.
- Nanoparticles.
- Nanotechnology.
- Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering.
- Local Subjects:
- Biomaterials.
- Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering.
- Nanoparticles.
- Nanotechnology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (68 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2025.
- Place of Publication:
- Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2025.
- Summary:
- Chitosan: Properties and Applications in Bioengineering 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. The book has been researched and written based on the data collected through several years of work in the Biomaterials Research Group, part of the University of Antioquia Bioengineering Program. This concise guide will be valuable for researchers and students in biomaterials, bioengineering, the basic sciences, chemical engineering, and biomedical engineering. In addition, this book: Explores chitosan as a natural biopolymer; Examines processing and extraction techniques; Presents the applications of chitosan as a biomaterial.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Structure
- Available Sources
- Properties
- Processing
- Characterization
- Applications of Chitosan.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Escobar Sierra, Diana Marcela Chitosan
- ISBN:
- 9783031819889
- OCLC:
- 1505021453
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