Production & Application of Fungal Chitosan and Chitosan Nanoparticles

ISBN-13: 9783659835018 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 172 str.

Osama Mohamad Darwesh; Marwa Ali Shalaby

Opis

Chitosan is a linear polysaccharide composed of randomly distributed _-(1-4)-linked D-glucosamine (deacetylated unit) and N-acetyl-D-glucosamine (acetylated unit). It has potential applications including food industry, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, environment, medicine uses, artificial organs and drugs membranes and agriculture such as fungicide, soil modifier and elicitor. Chitosan found in the cell wall of certain groups of fungi, particularly Zygomycetes. Nano chitosan was prepared using produced fungal chitosan and were applied in several fields such as antimicrobial activity, heavy metals removal and remediation of municipal and industrial wastewater

O autorze

Researcher at National Research Centre, Egypt from 2014. Awarded the National Research Center for the best Ph.D. thesis in environmental sciences in 2014. I have 3 patent applications. I participate in 32 international conferences and published 14 papers and two books. I am working on application of nanotechnology for environment remediation.