The aim of this project is the development of insect chitin as a sustainable chitin source for use as a functional surface coating of yarns and of technical textile surfaces. The project will consider the entire value creation chain: starting with the production of chitin from secondary streams of industrial insect cultivation, through a targeted enzymatic and chemical modification of chitin and chitosan, to the application in functional coating of textile surfaces and yarns.
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