Special Issue "Chitins"
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Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 October 2010)
Special Issue Editor
Guest Editor
Dr. Hitoshi Sashiwa
Frontier Materials Development Laboratories, Kaneka Co., 5-1-1 Torikai-Nishi, Settsu, Osaka 566-0072, Japan
E-Mail: hitoshi_sashiwa@kn.kaneka.co.jp
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Dear Colleagues,
The research history on chitin was started around 1970-1980, which was the 1st stage on chitin research. Now is going on the 2nd stage both fundamental and industrial fields.
To overview the recent publications, in my opinion, study on chitin (include chitosan) seems to be saturated or stopped. With opening the special issue “chitin”, I strongly hope the very exciting, break-through, scientific, and industrial valuable works.
Dr. Hitoshi Sashiwa
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- chitin
- chitosan
- exciting
- break-through
- 2nd stage
Published Papers (2 papers)
 Materials 2010, 3(12), 5195-5211; doi:10.3390/ma3125195
Received: 27 October 2010; in revised form: 24 November 2010 / Accepted: 25 November 2010 / Published: 6 December 2010
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Materials 2011, 4(2), 380-389; doi:10.3390/ma4020380
Received: 3 January 2011; in revised form: 16 January 2011 / Accepted: 21 January 2011 / Published: 10 February 2011
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Planned Papers
Authors: H. Lisboa 1,2, A.M. Ramos 3, E. Pires 1 and J.P. Borges2
Affiliations: 1 CERAMED, Campus do INETI, Estrada do Paço do Lumiar, 22, 1649-038, Lisboa, Portugal
2 CENIMAT/I3N, Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, FCT, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal; E-Mail: jpb@fct.unl.pt (J.P.B.)
3 REQUIMTE/CQFB, Departamento de Química, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, FCT, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
Abstract: Chitin and chitosan are linear polysaccharide composed of b-(1-4)-linked units of 2-amino-2-deoxy-D-glucose and N-acetyl-2-amino-2-deoxy-D-glucose. Chitosan is the copolymer with more deacetylated units (normally more than 60-70 %) and contrary to chitin is soluble in dilute acid solutions and has found many applications in the biomedical, cosmetics and agriculture fields. Due to its insolubility in most solvents, chitin has found few applications to date. However, chitin nanowhiskers have been successfully prepared and used as reinforcements in polymers. This article reviews the production and characterization of nanocomposites reinforced with chitin nanowhiskers and its application as eco-friendly materials or in the biomedical field.
Keywords: chitin; nanowhiskers; eco-composites; polysaccharides; bio-composites
Last update: 6 December 2010