Nanalysis and ChitoLytic are leading companies in their respective fields. Nanalysis is a manufacturer of cutting-edge benchtop NMR instruments, and ChitoLytic is one of the world’s leading chitosan suppliers.
They have been collaborating to develop methods using the Nanalysis 60 MHz benchtop NMR instrument to evaluate chitosan, including the accurate determination of the degree of deacetylation (DAA), one of chitosan’s most important quality control parameters. DDA exerts significant influence on chitosan’s many physical, chemical, and biological properties, including its acid-base and electrostatic characteristics, biodegradability, adhesiveness, self-aggregation tendencies, sorption capabilities, its ability to bind with metal ions, etc.
The Nanalysis 60 MHz benchtop NMR instrument has shown it provides an accurate, simple, rapid, cost-effective, and dependable method for evaluating chitosan DDA, which in turn can help to unlock chitosan’s full potential in a wide range of applications.
By working together, ChitoLytic and Nanalysis hope to expand the testing capabilities of markets that don’t have access to traditional high-field NMR instrumentation, and to those that do have access that can also benefit from an easier-to-use, rapid, and cost-effective method.
