Research Article
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 |
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