Chapter 1. Nutritional and Additive Uses of Chitin and Chitosan in the Food Industry
Carla Harkin, Norbert Mehlmer, Dirk V. Woortman, Thomas B. Brück and Wolfram M. Brück
Chapter 2. Chitosan for Seafood Processing and Preservation
Piotr Kulawik, Ewelina Jamróz and Fatih Özogul
Chapter 3. Applications of Chitosan as Food Packaging Materials
Patricia Cazón and Manuel Vázquez
Chapter 4. Applications of Chitin in Agriculture
Julia Shamshina, Tetyana Oldham (Konak) and Robin D. Rogers
Chapter 5. Chitosan-Based Hydrogels
Janaína Oliveira Gonçalves, Vanessa Mendonça Esquerdo, Tito Roberto Sant’Anna Cadaval Junior, and Luiz Antonio de Almeida Pinto
Chapter 6. Chitin and Chitosan in Drug Delivery
Rabinarayan Parhi
Chapter 7. Application of Chitosan-Based Formulations in Controlled Drug Delivery
Jacques Desbrieres, Catalina Anisoara Peptu, Lacramioara Ochiuz, Corina Lenuta Savin, Marcel Popa and Silvia Vasiliu
Chapter 8. Design of Nano-Chitosans for Tissue Engineering and Molecular Delivery
Sheriff Adewuyi, Iriczalli Cruz-Maya, Ejeromedoghene Onome and Vincenzo Guarino
Chapter 9. Chitosan for Direct Bioflocculation Processes
Eric Lichtfouse, Nadia Morin-Crini, Marc Fourmentin, Hassiba Zemmouri, Inara Oliveira do Carmo Nascimento, Luciano Matos Queiroz, Mohd Yuhyi Mohd Tadza, Lorenzo A. Picos-Corrales, Haiyan Pei, Lee D. Wilson and Grégorio Crini
Chapter 10. Cross-linked Chitosan Hydrogels for Dye Removal
Grégorio Crini, Giangiacomo Torri, Éric Lichtfouse, George Z. Kyzas, Lee D. Wilson and Nadia Morin-Crini
Dr. Grégorio Crini is researcher at University Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Besançon. His current interests focus on the design of novel polymer networks and the environmental aspects of polysaccharide chemistry. He published over 190 papers in international journals and books, and he is a highly cited researcher. The total citation of his publications is over 8700, h-index: 33.
Dr. Eric Lichtfouse is a biogeochemist at Aix Marseille University who has invented carbon-13 dating, a molecular-level method allowing to study the dynamics of organic compounds in temporal pools of complex environmental media. He is Chief Editor of the journal Environmental Chemistry Letters, and the book series Sustainable Agriculture Reviews and Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World.
This book reviews recent research and applications of chitin and chitosan, as natural alternatives of fossil fuel products, in medicine and pharmacy, agriculture, food science and water treatment. Chitin and chitosan products are polysaccharides derived from food waste of crustaceans and fungi, and thus are cheap, abundant, sustainable, non-toxic, recyclable and biocompatible. Remarkable applications include food additives and preservation, packaging materials, biopesticides and fertilisers, drug delivery, tissue engineering, bioflocculation and dye removal.