Project

Nano3Bio – NanoBioEngingeering of Bioinspired Biopolymers

Acronym
Nano3Bio
Code
41V09013
Duration
01 October 2013 → 30 September 2017
Funding
European funding: framework programme
Research disciplines
  • Natural sciences
    • Synthetic biology
  • Engineering and technology
    • Biomaterials
    • Industrial microbiology
Keywords
pattern of acetylation metabolic engineering chitosan
 
Project description

The Nano3Bio project aims at establishing biotechnological ways for producing fully defined, partially acetylated chitosans. Today’s commercially available chitosans, produced from chitin isolated from shrimp shell wastes, can be well defined concerning their degree of polymerisation and acetylation, but they are invariably characterised by a random pattern of acetylation. In addtion, application tests will be performed with these novel molecules.