Arabian Journal of Chemistry (Dec 2020)

Recent advancement and development of chitin and chitosan-based nanocomposite for drug delivery: Critical approach to clinical research

  • Awais Ahmad,
  • N.M Mubharak,
  • Khalida Naseem,
  • Hina Tabassum,
  • Muhammad Rizwan,
  • Agnieszka Najda,
  • M. Kashif,
  • May Bin-Jumah,
  • Afzal Hussain,
  • Asma Shaheen,
  • Mohamed M. Abdel-Daim,
  • Shafaqat Ali,
  • Shahid Hussain

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 12
pp. 8935 – 8964

Abstract

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This review depicts the exposure of chitin and chitosan base multifunctional nanomaterial composites for promising applications in field of biomedical science structure, synthesis as well as potential application from a colossal angle. We elaborated critically each of the chitin and chitosan base nanomaterial with its potential application toward biomedical science. For different biomedical applications it use in form of hydrogels, microsphere, nanoparticles, aerogels, microsphere and in form of scaffold. Due to this it had been blended with different polymer such as starch, cellulose, alginate, lipid, hyaluronic acid, polyvinyl alcohol and caboxymethyl cellulose. In this review article, a comprehensive overview of combination of chitin and chitosan base nanomaterial with natural as well as synthetic polymers and their biomedical applications in biomedical field involving drug delivery system all the technical scientific issues have been addressed; highlighting the recent advancements.

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