Associate Laboratory for Green Chemistry - LAQV which is financed by national funds from FCT/MCTES (UIDB/50006/2020 and UIDP/50006/2020).; Chitosan, a natural and abundant biopolymer has been long explored as a biocompatible material for the preparation of drug delivery devices. This strategy has been mostly accomplished using chemically crosslinked chitosan leading to more stable scaffolds. However, crosslinki...