CHITIN-GLUCAN COMPLEXES AND METHOD FOR THE PREPARATION THEREOF FROM CHITIN-RICH BIOMATERIALS

摘要

The invention concerns a novel method for preparing chitin-glucan or chitosan-glucan complexes from chitin-rich raw materials of biological origin, such as microfungal mycelium and crustacean exoskeletons, the resulting product containing between 19 and 55 % chitin and a having a mean molecular weight of between 1.7 and 155 kDa.