According to the Sci-technology Novelty Search Workstation of Ministry of Education on July 25, 2017, an academic paperPhysical properties and antibacterial activity of quaternized chitosan/carboxymethyl cellulose blend filmspublished inLWT-Food Science and Technologyhas been selected in ESI hot paper list. The paper was publish in 2016 by Hu Dongying, a 2013 doctoral candidate fromMaterials Science and Engineering College as the first author, and Professor Wang Lijuan form the same college as the first communication author. The hot paper was published in the past two years and its frequency of citations in the March / April 2017 was among the best in the field of Agricultural Sciences.

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