Chitin and chitosan as functional biopolymers for industrial applications

The European Polysaccharide Network of Excellence (EPNOE): Research Initiatives and Results

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 329-373

  Kardas, Iwona ^a   Struszczyk, Marcin Henryk ^a   Kucharska, Magdalena ^a   Broek, Lambertus A M ^b   van Dam, Jan E G ^b   Ciechańska, Danuta ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPOLYMERS AND CHEMICAL FIBRES   (Poland)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7091-0421-7_11     Document Type: Chapter

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