Issue 21, 2010
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Soft Matter

A facile bottom-up route to self-assembled biogenic chitin nanofibers†

Chao Zhong,a   Ashleigh Cooper,a   Adnan Kapetanovic,a   Zhihua Fang,ab   Miqin Zhanga  and  Marco Rolandi*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
E-mail: rolandi@u.washington.edu

b Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Sichuan University, Sichuan Province, PRC

Abstract

A facile bottom-up strategy affords cytocompatible self-assembled biogenic chitin nanofibers with diameter control. Ultrafine (3 nm) nanofibers are easily obtained from drying a chitin/hexafluoro 2-propanol solution, and larger (10 nm) nanofibers are precipitated from LiCl/N,N-dimethylacetamide upon addition of water.

Graphical abstract: A facile bottom-up route to self-assembled biogenic chitin nanofibers

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C0SM00450B
Article type
Communication
Submitted
28 May 2010
Accepted
27 Aug 2010
First published
13 Sep 2010

Soft Matter, 2010,6, 5298-5301

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C. Zhong, A. Cooper, A. Kapetanovic, Z. Fang, M. Zhang and M. Rolandi, Soft Matter, 2010, 6, 5298 DOI: 10.1039/C0SM00450B

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