“…In our previous work [43], it was demonstrated that CS could be efficiently modified by radical copolymerization with vinyl monomers; before this, just a few papers were published in this field [44,45]. The main advantage of this modification is that it could be applied with a wide range of monomers, resulting in a notable change in chemical, mechanical and thermal stability, solubility and other essential properties [43,46,47,48]. Radical copolymerization with styrene [47] and acrylonitrile [48] significantly increases CS mechanical properties and, more importantly, limits polysaccharide dissolution in the presence of water without fractional free volume decrease [43].…”