Proceedings of the Korean Society of Fisheries Technology Conference (한국어업기술학회:학술대회논문집)
- 2001.10a
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- Pages.237-238
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- 2001
Emulsifying Property of Carboxymethylchitin
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Byun, Hee-Guk
(Dept. of Chemistry, Pukyong National University)
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- Park, Pyo-Jam (Dept. of Chemistry, Pukyong National University) ;
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Kim, Se-Kwon
(Dept. of Chemistry, Pukyong National University)
- Published : 2001.10.01
Abstract
Chitin is the second most abundant natural polymer after cellulose. It is mainly extracted from crustaceous shells and cell walls of fungi, insects and yeast. Chitin is known to be insoluble in most common solvents except for strong acids or N,N-dimethylacetamid because of its rigid crystalline structure through intra- and intermolecular hydrogen bonds. Therefore, different derivatives have been prepared based on chemical and enzymic modification of chitin. (omitted)
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