Physicochemical and Antibacterial Properties of Chitosan Extracted from Waste Shrimp Shells

Table 1

Chitin and chitosan copolymers obtained by the proposed methodologies.

Method	Shell waste (g)	Copolymers		Degree of deacetylation (%)
		Chitin (%)	Chitosan (%)
Method 1; Zamani et al. [17]	10	33	49	76.0
Method 2; Arantes [18]	10	36	63	81.7