https://www.selleckchem.com/products/at13387.html Ternary composite films containing bulk chitosan (CS) and chitosan nanoparticles (CSNPs) with different concentrations were prepared using bacterial cellulose/poly(vinyl alcohol) as the base film and the composites films were compared. The micromorphology and mechanical, physical, chemical, antibacterial, and optical barrier properties of the composite films were compared. CS incorporation improved the mechanical properties, as the maximum tensile strength was increased to 130.55 ± 9.42 MPa. The dense structure of CSNPs prevented water diffusion and lessened the water content of the composite membranes. The inclusion of CS and CSNPs both reduced the water solubility and water vapor permeability. CS-doped films possessed good transparency, while CSNPs had better ultraviolet-barrier properties (3.84 % of transmittance at 200-280 nm). In addition, CSNPs-embedded membranes exhibited prominent antibacterial properties against Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus, which were much greater than those of CS composite membranes with a maximum bacteriostatic diameter of 10.33 ± 1.55 mm. A facile one-pot synthetic method for preparing gold nanoparticles by employing sugammadex (SUG), a carboxylic acid functionalized γ-cyclodextrin derivative, as reducing-cum-stabilizing agent herein was reported for the first time. The SUG protected gold nanoparticles (SUG-AuNPs) can work as a colorimetric sensor for visual chiral recognition of α-amino acids enantiomers, especially for lysine (Lys) and asparagine (Asn) enantiomers. The chiral recognition assay was successfully applied to determining the enantiometric excess of L-Lys and L-Asn ranging from -100 % to 100 % respectively. Moreover, the prepared SUG-AuNPs was found to exhibit efficient catalytic activity towards the reduction of toxic 4-nitrophenol by NaBH4 and the efficiency of the system was further demonstrated through the reduction of other typical nitroaromatics under mil