Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 36: Chitin and Chitosan: Applications in Food, Agriculture, Pharmacy, Medicine and Wastewater Treatment

ISBN-13: 9783030165833 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 428 str.

Crini, Grégorio

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Preface

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

O autorze

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.