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Besides the event in the first half of the year 2009 - the European Conference on Chitin and Chitosan in Venice - many different articles in chitin and chitosan research were published in scientific journals. Here you can find an overview of some of them...
Whats new in April? Many different articles about chitin and chitosan were published in scientific journals.
The younth in Germany is also researching about chitosan. Two scoolgirls land not only a first prize, but also a special prize on regional as well as on state level of the competition "Jugend forscht". Title of their work: Biopolymer, Lipidabsorber, Ion exchanger, anti microbial agent: The allrounder Chitosan.
Chitosan is employed in many domains. Besides medical areas like e.g. as support in wound healing or in tissue engineering chitosan can also be applied in the fields of food technology and water management. Thanks to scientists of the faculty of Microsystems Technic at the Univesity of Stuttgart, chitosan might soon become part of biocompatible fuel cells.
Scientist at the Mississippi South University in Hattiesburg succeded a spectacular development - a self-reparing material when exposed to ultraviolet light. Prof. Marek Urban and Ph.D. student Biswajit Ghosh were researching on a coating, which main components are chitosan and oxetan. From their point of view this priniciple can be of greatest importance for many matrials.
The systematic study on chitosan and its applications also significantly gains in importance in 2008. The number of articles mentioning chitosan in their title and published in biomedical journals rise by 46% compared to the number of 2007 publications. Exploratory focus of the 692 articles were mainly in the areas biotechnology and pharmaceuticals.