Browsing by Author "Baran, Talat"

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Bat guano as new and attractive chitin and chitosan source

Kaya, Murat; Seyyar, Osman; Baran, Talat; Turkes, Tuncay (BIOMED CENTRAL LTD, 2014)

Introduction: Chitin is a biopolymer that forms the exoskeleton of arthropods, and is found in the cell walls of fungi. It has a wide range of uses in fields such as cosmetics, pharmacy, medicine, bioengineering, agriculture, ...
COMPARISON OF CHITIN STRUCTURES DERIVED FROM THREE COMMON WASP SPECIES (Vespa crabro LINNAEUS, 1758, Vespa orientalis LINNAEUS, 1771 and Vespula germanica (FABRICIUS, 1793))

Kaya, Murat; Bagriacik, Nil; Seyyar, Osman; Baran, Talat (WILEY, 2015)

There has been no study on the chitin structure of wasp species. Here, we selected the three most common wasp species belonging to the family Vespidae for chitin extraction and characterization. Chitin was isolated from ...
A physicochemical characterization of fully acetylated chitin structure isolated from two spider species: With new surface morphology

Kaya, Murat; Seyyar, Osman; Baran, Talat; Erdogan, Sevil; Kar, Musa (ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, 2014)

Spiders are a huge group which includes more than 44,000 species. But there has been no study of the chitin structure of spiders. In this study we physicochemically characterized chitin structure of two common spider species ...