Regeneration of dissolved chitin in water leads to hydrolysis of this intermediate ion and liberates chitin with almost the same structure
Compared to preparing chitin nanocrystals, the recovery yield of the regenerated chitin was more than 90%.
Detailed physicochemical characterization of the regenerated chitin, such as X-ray diffraction, fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy analyses were reported in one of our earlier manuscripts