“Soft” mechanochemistry offers new route to chitosan

摘要

Audrey Moores, an associate professor in McGill University’s Department of Chemistry, never forgot the students who tried to save some money while working in her lab a few summers ago. Michael Malca and Pierre-Olivier Ferko were using polyethylene glycol (PEG) to stabilize nanoparticles for a biomedical application and Moores told them to buy PEG amines for the purpose.