Application of Chitosan and Hyaluronan
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2025 | Viewed by 481
Special Issue Editor
Interests: hyaluronan; reactive oxygen species; drugs; antioxidants; biopolymers
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Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue aims to publish papers on chitosan and hyaluronan applications. Chitosan is synthesized by the alkaline N-deacetylation of chitin (β-N-acetyl-glucosamine polymer). It has several advantageous properties, such as degradability, biocompatibility, physiological inertness, absence of toxicity, remarkable affinity to proteins, hemostaticity, lack of allergenicity, and antibacterial activity. Chitosan and its derivatives have been widely used in cosmetics and medicine, including biomaterials for tissue-engineered scaffolds and tissue repair, wound dressings, and biochemical separation systems. Hyaluronan, another β-polymer, is one of the major structural components of the extracellular matrix in vertebrates, widely distributed in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. Adult humans contain about 12–15 g of HA, most of which occurs in skin, vitreous body of the eye, umbilical cord, and articular joint synovial fluid. The HA biopolymer provides a wide range of pharmacological activities, including anti-inflammatory, wound-healing, tissue-regenerating, immunomodulatory, anti-cancer, anti-proliferative, anti-diabetic, anti-aging, skin repairing, and cosmetic properties.
The main topics of interest are the preparation of hyaluronan, chitosan, or their derivatives and their applications in cosmetics, the food industry, water treatments, etc. and the effects of these compounds against reactive oxygen species. For this Special Issue, high-quality research papers will be accepted along with review papers summarizing the state of the art of a specific area of this field of research.
Dr. Katarína Valachová
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- hyaluronan
- chitosan
- functionalized hyaluronan and chitosan
- hyaluronan and chitosan derivatives
- medicinal applications
- polysaccharides
- reactive oxygen species
- tissue engineering
- biodegradable
- biological properties
- medicine
- cosmetics
- food industry
- water treatments
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