“…The second is a simple filtration device featured by a sheet of SL-modified chitosan fiber (SLCF 2 ) to effectively remove the virus from the medium. Sugar-incorporated systems reported in the past are diverse with various functions, which include conjugated polymers and dendrimers, nanoparticles, vesicles, magnetic beads, quantum dots, membrane, and microarrays. − To the best of our knowledge, however, this work is the first to functionalize a fibrous material to confer the molecular recognition capability with the sugar. Importantly, the use of polysaccharide chitosan, which has been widely used in the pharmaceutical and medical areas due to its unique properties, such as biocompatibility, biodegradability, and antimicrobial activity, − as the scaffold enables not only the improved safety of SLCC 1 as a potential anti-influenza agent, but also attractive applications of SLCF 2 as a filter material in the control of the virus transmission.…”