Advanced Biopolymer Materials: Preparation, Characterization and Applications
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomaterials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 April 2023) | Viewed by 44173
Special Issue Editors
Interests: furcellaran; biopolymer films; nanocapsules; active and intelligent properties
Interests: nanoparticles; materials chemistry; liposomes; bioinorganic chemistry; coordination chemistry; controlled drug delivery; carbon nanomaterials
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recently, biopolymers have attracted growing interest among research teams around the world. Growing awareness of the use of environmentally-friendly materials as an ecological alternative to fossil-fuel-based polymers has contradicted the growing research interest in the area of biopolymers. Advances in technology have opened up new avenues for exploring the potential of biopolymers.
Advanced bio-based materials and their composites are used in the biomedical, commercial, food, and engineering sectors. The use of bio-based materials will improve sustainability by reducing waste and toxic emissions, leading to a greener and cleaner environment. In particular, proteins and polysaccharides are used in the preparation of bio-based materials.
The present Special Issue is dedicated to materials based on biopolymers, especially proteins and polysaccharides. Polysaccharides (pectin, furcellaran, carrageenan, chitosan, alginate, starch and xanthan gum, etc.) and proteins (gelatin, alginate, collagen, gluten, whey protein, etc.) have been used as biopolymer materials in order to reduce traditional plastic packages. However, they have several disadvantages related to their low strength parameters and are a poor barrier to water vapor and oxygen. Nevertheless, these disadvantages can be minimized by combining different biopolymers with each other and by adding different ingredients such as nanofillers to the biomaterial structure in order to complement the defects in the matrix.
The main domains addressed by this Issue are as follows:
- Protein-based materials
- Polysaccharide-based materials;
- Nanocomposite biopolymer-based materials
- Active and intelligent packaging based on biopolymers
- Applications of biopolymer-based materials
- Synthesis and characterization of biopolymer-based materials.
Dr. Ewelina Jamróz
Prof. Dr. Pavel Kopel
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Polysaccharides
- Protein
- Biomaterials
- Active and intelligent packaging
- Nanocomposites
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