Chitin: Fulfilling a Biomaterials Promise

By Eugene Khor and Andrew C a Wan

The second edition of Chitin underscores the important factors for standardizing chitin processing and characterization. It captures the essential interplay between chitin's assets and limitations as a biomaterial, placing the past promises of chitin in perspective, addressing its present realities and offering insight into what is required to realize chitin's destiny (including its derivative, chitosan) as a biomaterial of the twenty-first century. This book is an ideal guide for both industrialists and researchers with a vested interest in commercializing chitin.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0080999395
• ISBN13: 9780080999395
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"