Farmed Jumbo shrimp molts: an ionic liquid strategy to increase chitin yield per animal while controlling molecular weight
Hannah B. Wineinger, Adrian Kelly, Julia L. Shamshina, Robin D. Rogers
Abstract
A chitin extraction strategy of collecting all shrimp molts during their lifetime leads to not only a very large increase in overall resource abundance, but also control over the molecular weight of the resulting chitin.
Topics & Concepts
ChitinShrimpYield (engineering)Extraction (chemistry)ChemistryZoologyBiologyFisheryFood scienceBiochemistryChromatographyChitosanMaterials scienceMetallurgyNanocomposite Films for Food PackagingStudies on Chitinases and Chitosanases