Algal Chemicals: Processing, Purification, Function and Modification
A special issue of Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2024) | Viewed by 358
Special Issue Editors
Interests: algae; application; extraction; bioactives; functional activity; modification
Interests: innovative processing technologies; quality and flavor; biological macromolecules; structure-function relationships; high-value processing
Interests: algae; functional components; molecular nutrition; pharmacology research; nutritional evaluation; application of phytochemicals; aging and related complex diseases
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Algae, as the most abundant green renewable resource on Earth, have garnered significant attention from scientists worldwide due to their potential for high-value development and utilization and serve as prolific producers of bioactive chemicals with numerous beneficial properties. These chemicals exhibit a wide range of nutritional and health-promoting activities that are advantageous for human well-being; thus, they possess substantial value for development and utilization in healthy food products, biomedical applications, and the cosmetics industries.
This Special Issue seeks an updated knowledge base, focusing on novel bioactive chemicals in algal molecular nutrition and the application of molecular biology techniques to algae. Aiming at the key problems of unstable structure, unclear functional activity, and low development and availability of algae bioactive components, the mechanism of processing technology on the stability of active chemical structure and the improvement of availability were explored to clarify the functional activity. In order to better utilize algae as bioactive chemicals, it is necessary to explore the key technical functions and molecular nutritional properties of these substances.
For this Special Issue, we invite academic and industrial scientists to submit reviews and original and conceptual research articles highlighting the novel bioactive compounds in algae molecular nutrition and the application of novel processing technologies to algae.
Dr. Hang Qi
Dr. Ze-Dong Jiang
Prof. Dr. Chao Zhao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- algae
- purification
- processing technology
- bioactive compounds
- structure
- nutritional functions
- modification
- bioavailability
- application
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