THIRTY YEARS OF PROGRESS IN CHITIN AND CHITOSAN
Journal Title: Progress on Chemistry and Application of Chitin and its Derivatives - Year 2008, Vol 0, Issue
Abstract
Although Braconnot’s discovery of chitin preceded Payen’s discovery of cellulose by almost 30 years, and the amount of chitin produced annually by biosynthesis is not that much less than cellulose, the industrial application of cellulose is staggeringly in advance of that of chitin/chitosan. One possible reason for this is the much greater ease of obtaining industrial quantities of cellulose and another is the much greater complexity of the chitosan molecule. We are only beginning to really understand chitosan and so perhaps we are at last on the verge of its commercial exploitation.
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George AF Roberts
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