“…Chitosan and its derivatives have been widely used in different fields, such as medicine, pharmaceutical industry, the food industry, cosmetics, water treatment, tissue engineering, as well as gene therapy and agriculture; for example, as water disinfectant, films and blends for biodegradable packaging materials, pesticides, antibacterial and antifungal materials, paper coatings, flame retardants, coagulants, antioxidants, and as carriers in drug delivery systems . Different chemical modifications have been reported to increase the antibacterial activity of chitosan, to alter the physicochemical properties for biomedical applications with lower toxicity, to develop functional materials which can be used as source of natural antioxidants, or as depolluting agent for metal ions; all these properties depend on the degree of substitution . In order to improve chitosan properties, attention has been recently paid to chitosan chemical modification by introducing, for example, quaternary ammonium moieties into the polymer backbone, which represents one of the most promising strategies for antimicrobial materials preparation .…”