Towards Sustainable Solutions: Recent Advances in Polyphenol-Based Biomaterials

Dear Colleagues,

Natural polyphenols represent a class of polyphenolic compounds extensively present in living species ranging from bacteria and fungi up to plants to animals. These biomolecules play several key roles, such as cytoprotection, iron transport, pigmentation, metal coordination, and signal transmission, among others. Interestingly, natural polyphenols have been reported with remarkable functional properties, such as antibacterial, anticancer, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, anti-metastatic, antiviral, anthelmintic, β-amyloid inhibition, myocardial protection, and immune-regulatory activities. Due to these multipurpose properties, natural polyphenols have been attracting growing interest in diverse areas from food and cosmetics up to pharmaceutics and medicine. This Special Issue intends to cover the most recent fundamental (e.g., extraction, characterization, self-assembly and interactions with other molecules, mechanisms of action) and applied aspects (e.g., strategies to develop and characterize novel engineered natural polyphenol-based nanoparticles, drug delivery systems, films, hydrogels, composites, foams).

Dr. Bruno Medronho
Guest Editor

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