The green and stable dissolving system based on KOH/urea for homogeneous chemical modification of chitosan.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2018.08.150
Abstract: The novel solvent (0.25 M KOH/0.01 M urea alkaline solution) was used to successfully dissolve chitosan without freezing-thawing cycles, for the first time. The results from XRD, FTIR, and 13CNRM proved that KOH/urea solution could destroy the… read more here.
Keywords: chitosan; chemical modification; modification chitosan; koh urea ... See more keywords