Design and Synthesis of Carbohydrate Biomaterials and Their Biomedical Applications
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Chemical Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 July 2019) | Viewed by 195
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
For millennia, humankind have used carbohydrate materials in a variety of cultural practices ranging from textiles to traditional medicine. For example, plant- and fungal-derived polysaccharides have been widely employed in traditional Chinese medicine owing to their potent immunostimulatory properties. Carbohydrates are the most abundant biomolecules on earth, and their myriad oligomeric and polymeric forms provide a rich pharmacopeia of bioactive materials with widespread applications in biotechnology and medicine. The impressive advances made in the glycosciences over the last 30 years, particularly the realization of the essential roles that carbohydrates play in cell–cell and cell–matrix signalling events, has provided much of the impetus for the rapid growth of carbohydrate-based biomaterials research. This improved knowledge has also converged with a rapid growth in nanoscale fabrication and characterization technologies, which has resulted in the development of innovative new materials with tailored biological and physical properties, including hydrogels for regenerative medicine, antiadhesive coatings, antimicrobial bioplastics, vaccines and immunomodulation agents, therapeutics, cryoprotectants, and drug delivery vehicles. This Special Issue will highlight the recent developments in carbohydrate-based biomaterials research, with an emphasis on frontier technologies that describe polymeric and self-assembled biomaterials as well as their novel applications.
Dr. Brendan Wilkinson
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- carbohydrate-based materials
- glycopeptide-based materials
- biomimetic self-assembly
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