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NANOSCALE
Volume 6, Issue 16, Pages 9477-9493Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c4nr02814g
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- Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University [NECT-10-0618]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21007049, 51373124]
- Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province [2011CDB268]
- Iowa State University (ISU) President's Initiative on Interdisciplinary Research (PIIR) program
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Over the past several decades, we have witnessed significant progress in chitosan and chitin based nanostructured materials. The nanofibers from chitin and chitosan with appealing physical and biological features have attracted intense attention due to their excellent biological properties related to biodegradability, biocompatibitity, antibacterial activity, low immunogenicity and wound healing capacity. Various methods, such as electrospinning, self-assembly, phase separation, mechanical treatment, printing, uttrasonication and chemical treatment were employed to prepare chitin and chitosan nanofibers. These nanofibrous materials have tremendous potential to be used as drug delivery systems, tissue engineering scaffolds, wound dressing materials, antimicrobial agents, and biosensors. This review article discusses the most recent progress in the preparation and application of chitin and chitosan based nanofibrous materials in biomedical fields.
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