Chitosan Market for Water Treatment, Biomedicine & Pharmaceutics, Industrial - Analysis and Trends by 2020
Extensive application of chitosan as adsorbents and flocculants in wastewater treatments, including removal of pollutants industrial and municipal wastewaters, is a key factor driving the market. Several attractive characteristics such as hydrophobicity, and biocompatibility, biodegradability make the use of chitosan biopolymer preferable to polysaccharides. Various specific modifications possible with its chemical structure make it widely popular in a variety of value-added applications such as biomedicine, foods and beverages, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics. This has led to a steady evolution of the...
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