Overview
- Novel industrial applications of an abundant, natural product in medicine, pharmacy, agriculture, food science, and water treatment
- Provides advanced knowledge on the properties of chitin and chitosan
- Includes 40 tables and 37 illustrations allowing fast understanding of current knowledge
Part of the book series: Sustainable Agriculture Reviews (SARV, volume 36)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 36
Book Subtitle: Chitin and Chitosan: Applications in Food, Agriculture, Pharmacy, Medicine and Wastewater Treatment
Editors: Grégorio Crini, Eric Lichtfouse
Series Title: Sustainable Agriculture Reviews
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16581-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-16580-2Published: 18 June 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-16583-3Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-16581-9Published: 04 June 2019
Series ISSN: 2210-4410
Series E-ISSN: 2210-4429
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 428
Number of Illustrations: 41 b/w illustrations
Topics: Agriculture, Biomedical Engineering/Biotechnology, Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution, Environmental Chemistry, Food Science