“…Generally, chitosan-based materials with macroporous structure in the type of bead (Fu et al, 2006;Mi, Shyu, Chen, & Lai, 2001), gel (Cooney et al, 2008;Kathuria, Tripathi, Kar, & Kumar, 2009), foam (Zhang et al, 2014), and membrane (Orrego & Valencia, 2009) were prepared by using the methods such as freeze-drying, phaseinversion, or porogen-leaching. In contrast, little research was done on the fabrication of chitosan-based monolithic materials (Xu et al, 2011). Most importantly, a mesoporous structure has never been achieved in those materials.…”