Antimicrobial and antioxidant supramolecular ionic liquid gels from biopolymer mixtures

Abstract

In this work, we describe the preparation and characterization of supramolecular ionic liquid gels based on binary mixtures of biopolymers, comprising chitosan, chitin, cellulose and lignin. The gels were obtained...

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