Journal ArticleDOI
A review on chitosan and its nanocomposites in drug delivery.
Akbar Ali,Shakeel Ahmed +1 more
TLDR
This review discusses the various forms of chitosan materials such as beads, films, microspheres, nanoparticles, nanofibers, hydrogels, nanocomposites, etc. as drug delivery device and attempted to report the vast literature available on chitOSan based materials in drug delivery applications.About:
This article is published in International Journal of Biological Macromolecules.The article was published on 2018-04-01. It has received 702 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Drug delivery & Chitosan.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Applications of chitosan in food, pharmaceuticals, medicine, cosmetics, agriculture, textiles, pulp and paper, biotechnology, and environmental chemistry
TL;DR: Chitosan has attracted major scientific and industrial interests from the late 1970s due to its particular macromolecular structure, biocompatibility, biodegradability and other intrinsic functional properties.
Journal ArticleDOI
Biopolymer based nanomaterials in drug delivery systems: A review
TL;DR: This review describes the new trends in nanomaterials based drug delivery systems mainly using biopolymers such as proteins (silk fibroin, collagen, gelatin and albumin) and polysaccharides (chitosan, alginate, cellulose and starch).
Journal ArticleDOI
Review on recent progress in chitosan-based hydrogels for wastewater treatment application.
TL;DR: This review represents an overview of the application of chitosan-based hydrogels for wastewater treatment and helps researchers to better understand the potential of these adsorbents for wastewaterreatment.
Journal ArticleDOI
Development of multifunctional food packaging films based on chitosan, TiO2 nanoparticles and anthocyanin-rich black plum peel extract
TL;DR: In this article, a multifunctional food packaging films were developed based on chitosan (CS), nanosized TiO2 and black plum peel extract (BPPE).
Journal ArticleDOI
Chitosan-Based Nanomaterials for Drug Delivery.
TL;DR: This review describes various approaches to obtain novel CS derivatives, including their distinct advantages, as well as different forms of nanomaterials recently developed from CS, presented here in terms of their specific functions.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Recent advances on chitosan-based micro- and nanoparticles in drug delivery.
TL;DR: The present review outlines the major new findings on the pharmaceutical applications of chitosan-based micro/nanoparticulate drug delivery systems published over the past decade and discusses critically the usefulness of these systems in delivering the bioactive molecules.
Journal ArticleDOI
Chitosan—A versatile semi-synthetic polymer in biomedical applications
TL;DR: The chemical structure and relevant biological properties of chitosan for regenerative medicine have been summarized as well as the methods for the preparation of controlled drug release devices and their applications.
Journal ArticleDOI
Chitosan-based hydrogels for controlled, localized drug delivery
TL;DR: The newest developments in chitosan hydrogel preparation are investigated and the design parameters in the development of physically and chemically cross-linked hydrogels are defined.
Journal ArticleDOI
Transport properties of two finite armchair graphene nanoribbons
Luis Rosales,J. W. González +1 more
TL;DR: This work presents a theoretical study of the transport properties of two finite and parallel armchair graphene nanoribbons connected to two semi-infinite leads of the same material using a single Π-band tight binding Hamiltonian and based on Green’s function formalisms within a real space renormalization techniques.
Journal ArticleDOI
Novel crosslinking methods to design hydrogels
Wim E. Hennink,C.F. van Nostrum +1 more
TL;DR: In this overview, different chemical and physical crosslinking methods used for the design of biodegradable hydrogels are summarized and discussed.