Pullulan

Shakeel Ahmed is an assistant professor of chemistry at Higher Education Department, Jammu and Kashmir, India, and Government Degree College Mendhar, Jammu and Kashmir. He obtained a first degree in general science from Government Postgraduate College (University of Jammu), Rajouri, Jammu and Kashmir, followed by a master’s degree and a doctorate in chemistry from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. He gained postdoctoral experience on biocomposite materials at the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi. He is a member of the American Chemical Society, USA; the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK; the International Association of Advanced Materials, Sweden; and the Asian Polymer Association and Society of Materials Chemistry, India. He has authored or co-authored 15 books on nanomaterials and green materials. Aisverya Soundararajan has been an assistant professor at Auxilium College, Thiruvalluvar University, Tamil Nadu, India. She received her PhD in 2016 from Thiruvalluvar University. Her research areas are polymer chemistry, nanotechnology, analytical chemistry, environmental chemistry, and polymeric biomedical applications. She has authored or co-authored chapters in books of international repute and research papers in several peer-reviewed international journals.

1. Polysaccharides: An Overview 2. Pullulan: Recent Progress and Technological Prospects 3. Synthesis of Pullulan 4. Factors Affecting Pullulan Production 5. Pullulan: Properties and Applications 6. Functional Characteristics of Pullulan: An Overview of Its Physicochemical and Physiological Properties 7. Pullulan-Degrading Enzymes and Their Biochemical Features 8. Microbial Pullulan: Properties, Bioprocess Engineering, and Applications 9. Transformation of an Aureobasidium Pullulan Synthetase Gene into Saccharomyces cerevisiae 10. Role of Pullulans in Cosmetics 11. Biomedical Applications of Pullulan