The use of indwelling medical devices (e.g. pacemakers, prosthetic joints, catheters, etc) continues to increase, yet these devices are all too often complicated by infections with biofilm-forming microbes with increased resistance to antimicrobial agents and host defense mechanisms. We investigated the ability of chitosan, a polymer isolated from crustacean exoskeletons, to damage biofilms for...

In this paper, the newly developed ion exchange phase separation method to create chitosan sub-micron particles is introduced: 1) chitosan was dissolved in a lactic acid aqueous solution; 2) the obtained chitosan solution was added stepwise in a sodium sulfate aqueous solution and cooled down to 5 ̊C to become slightly turbid through agglutination; 3) desalinating and deacidifying of the mixture...

esterification of chitosan with adipic acid catalyzed by immobilized candida antarctica lipase b was carried out in this study. response surface methodology (rsm) based on a four-factor- five-level small central composite design (sccd) was employed to model and analyze the reaction. a total of 21 experiments representing different combinations of the four reaction parameters including ch...

Abstract. Luthfiyana N, Bija S, Anwar E, Laksmitawati DE, Risalinda GL. 2022. Characteristics and activity of chitosan from mud crab shells on acne bacteria: Staphylococcus aureus, S. epidermidis Propionibacterium acnes. Biodiversitas 23: 6645-6651. Chitosan is a product chitin deacetylation, which has the potential to act as bacteria. The study aimed determine characteristics bacteria, i.e., a...

application of edible coatings to enhance storage life of fresh fruit has recently been under considerable attention. this experiment was conducted in order to explore the effect of chitosan coating and storage temperature on the postharvest life of pomegranate (punica granatum l.) fruit. therefore, pomegranate fruits ‘rabbab-e-neyriz’ were dipped in 0, 1 and 2% aqueous chitosan solutions, air ...

This research evaluated the importance of the adsorption properties of chitosan a chitosan/zeolite conjugate film for the removal of Cr(VI) ions from solutions in the 5-260 mg/L concentration range, when the pH was adjusted to 4.0 and 6.0. The uptake capacities of the films formed by chitosan and by the chitosan/zeolite conjugate were calculated by mass balance. The equilibrium isotherms were f...

Chitosan is a natural biopolymer that must be dissolved in an acid solution to activate its antimicrobial and eliciting properties. Among 15 acids tested, chitosan dissolved in 1% solutions of acetic, L-ascorbic, formic, L-glutamic, hydrochloric, lactic, maleic, malic, phosphorous, and succinic acid. To control gray mold, table grape berries were immersed for 10 s in these chitosan solutions th...