I want to encapsulate highly volatile oil in chitosan and chitosan oligosaccharide, Is it possible?

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I don't want to coacervate neither want to use glutaraldehyde for crosslinking. Is it possible to do it by other way besides emulsion polymerisation and coacervation???

Prerna Gupta

you can go for nano encapsulation also

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