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ArticleScientific reports2019

Sustainable ecofriendly phytoextract mediated one pot green recovery of chitosan.

Judy Gopal, Manikandan Muthu, Thirumalai Dhakshanamurthy, Ki Jun Kim, Nazim Hasan, Seong Jung Kwon, Sechul Chun

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Article in Scientific reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Judy GopalDepartment of Environmental Health Science, Konkuk University, Seoul, 05029, South Korea.
Manikandan MuthuDepartment of Environmental Health Science, Konkuk University, Seoul, 05029, South Korea.
Thirumalai DhakshanamurthyDepartment of Chemistry, Thiruvalluvar University, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, 632115, India.
Ki Jun KimDepartment of Chemistry, Konkuk University, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul, Korea.
Nazim HasanDepartment of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Jazan University, Jazan, P.O. Box 114, Saudi Arabia.
Seong Jung KwonDepartment of Chemistry, Konkuk University, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul, Korea.
Sechul ChunDepartment of Environmental Health Science, Konkuk University, Seoul, 05029, South Korea. scchun@konkuk.ac.kr.
Konkuk University · KRJazan University · SAThiruvalluvar University · IN

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chitin and chitosan are biopolymers that have diverse applications in medicine, agriculture, food, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, wastewater treatment and textiles. With bio-origins, they easily blend with biological systems and show exemplified compatibility which is mandatory when it comes to biomedical research. Chitin and chitosan are ecofriendly, however the processes that are used to recover them aren't ecofriendly. The focus of this work is to attempt an ecofriendly, sustainable phytomediated one pot recovery of chitosan from commercial chitin and from crab and shrimp shells and squid pen solid wastes. Graviola extracts have been employed, given the fact file that their active ingredients acetogenins actively interact with chitin in insects (resulting in its application as an insecticide). With that as the core idea, the graviola extracts were chosen for orchestrating chitin recovery and a possible chitin to chitosan transformation. The results confirm that graviola extracts did succeed in recovery of chitosan nanofibers from commercial chitin flakes and recovery of chitosan particles directly from solid marine wastes of crab, shrimp and squids. This is a first time report of a phyto-extract mediated novel chitosan synthesis method.

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