A review of chitin and chitosan applications

Reactive and Functional Polymers

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-27

  Ravi Kumar, Majeti N V ^a,b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

^b NONE   (India)

Author keywords

Beads; Biotechnology; Chitin; Chitosan; Controlled drug delivery; Fibers; Hydrogels; Nanoparticles; Tablets; Transdermal devices

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009365216     PISSN: 13815148     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1381-5148(00)00038-9     Document Type: Review

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