Meenakshi Sivalingam Valliappan

Extraction, structural characterization and biofunctional evaluation of novel chitosan derived from freshwater copepod Thermocyclops decipiens for biomedical applications.

Chitosan is a known biopolymer for biomedical applications, but its reliance on classical crustacean sources can lead to sustainability and variability problems. This is the first study to extract chitosan from a freshwater cyclopoid copepod (Thermocyclops decipiens) and characterise it in detail with respect to its ph...