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Study on effective extraction of keratin from human hair wastes

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ABSTRACT The aim of this study is to extract keratin from human hair waste by alkali-reduction method. The properties of keratin were analyzed by the tests of SEM and FTIR.… Click to show full abstract

ABSTRACT The aim of this study is to extract keratin from human hair waste by alkali-reduction method. The properties of keratin were analyzed by the tests of SEM and FTIR. The result shows that the extraction rate of keratin was 75.3%. Furthermore, FTIR shows that the molecular structure of keratin was transformed from α–helix to β–sheet in the process of extraction.

Keywords: extraction; human hair; keratin human; study effective; keratin

Journal Title: Integrated Ferroelectrics
Year Published: 2017

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