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Carbohydrate polymers have recently attracted great interest from academia and industry as one of the most abundant polymers in the world. Homopolymers or copolymers of monosaccharides, known as polysaccharides, are important part of carbohydrates and polymer materials with different sources from plants, microbes, and animals. Various structures and sources provide different chemical and mechanical properties and in result different applications. Carbohydrates are inexpensive materials, easily available, and renewable resources which present important characteristics including hydrophilicity and biocompatibility into polymeric systems. In this chapter potentials and applications of carbohydrate materials such as chitosan, chitin, cellulose, and alginate or their combinations in nanofiber form will be reviewed.
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Bahrami, S., Adel, M., Esmaeili, F., Rezayat, S.M., Mehravi, B., Zahmatkeshan, M. (2018). Carbohydrate-Based Nanofibers: Applications and Potentials. In: Barhoum, A., Bechelany, M., Makhlouf, A. (eds) Handbook of Nanofibers. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42789-8_28-1
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