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Authors gratefully acknowledged the financial assistance to KR in the form of Institute Research Fellowship from MNNIT, Allahabad and research funding to PKD from UGC, New Delhi. The RSC (London) -Research Fund Grant Award-2009 to PKD is also gratefully acknowledged.

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Dutta, P.K., Rinki, K., Dutta, J. (2011). Chitosan: A Promising Biomaterial for Tissue Engineering Scaffolds. In: Jayakumar, R., Prabaharan, M., Muzzarelli, R. (eds) Chitosan for Biomaterials II. Advances in Polymer Science, vol 244. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/12_2011_112

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