Dihydroxypropyl Chitosan: A Biorenewable Platform for the Design of Novel Fabric Care Additives
Marcellino D’Avino, Ruth Chilton, Gang Si, Mark R Sivik, David A Fulton · 2024
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Marcellino D'Avino, Ruth Chilton, Gang Si, Mark Sivik, and David Fulton published a 2024 chemistry paper on laundry additives made from a renewable material. Most polymers in detergents still come from petrochemicals. The team explored chitosan, a substance from natural sources, as a greener base.
They made a water soluble chitosan variant and attached oily groups to it, creating polymers that keep washed dirt from settling back on fabric and help release soil. The oily groups proved essential for any cleaning benefit on synthetic cloth. The degree of modification and the starting chain length also mattered a great deal. The results show this renewable platform can yield working fabric care polymers, a step toward detergents with a smaller footprint.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Marcellino D’Avino, Ruth Chilton, Gang Si, Mark R Sivik, David A Fulton |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 35 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |