• Utilization of marine waste to obtain β-chitin nanofibers and films from giant Humboldt squid dosidicus gigas 

    Cabrera-Barjas, Gustavo; González, Cristian; Nesic, Aleksandra; Marrugo, Kelly P.; Gómez, Oscar; Delattre, Cédric; Valdés-Lizama, Oscar; Yin, Heng; Bravo, Gaston; Cea, Juan (2021)
    β-chitin was isolated from marine waste, giant Humboldt squid Dosidicus gigas, and further converted to nanofibers by use of a collider machine under acidic conditions (pH 3). The FTIR, TGA, and NMR analysis confirmed the ...

  • Valorization of food waste to produce intelligent nanofibrous β-chitin films 

    Cabrera-Barjas, Gustavo; Radovanović, Neda; Bravo, Gaston; De la Torre, Alexander F.; Valdés, Oscar; Nesic, Aleksandra (2021)
    The efficient use of waste from food processing industry is one of the innovative approaches within sustainable development, because it can be transferred into added value products, which could improve economic, energetic ...