Production of low molecular weight chitosan by hot dilute sulfuric acid

BioResources

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1554-1564

  Zamani, Akram ^a,b   Taherzadeh, Mohammad J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BORÅS   (Sweden)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Depolymerization; Dilute sulfuric acid; High molecular weight chitosan; Low molecular weight chitosan

Indexed keywords

ACID SOLUTIONS; DILUTE SULFURIC ACID; GLUCOSAMINES; HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT CHITOSANS; SULFURIC ACID SOLUTION; TREATMENT TIME; VISCOSITY AVERAGE MOLECULAR WEIGHT;

ACIDS; CHITIN; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; RECOVERY; SULFURIC ACID; WEIGHING;

CHITOSAN;

EID: 77956076506     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19302126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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