Biomacromolecules and Biobased Polymers: Synthesis, Application and Natural Functions
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Biobased and Biodegradable Polymers".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 March 2024) | Viewed by 479
Special Issue Editor
Interests: bacterial polymers; copolymers; composites; polyhydroxyalkanoates; alginates; biosynthesis; biodegradation; tissue engineering; biocompatibility; regeneration; microbiota
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Dear Colleagues,
A number of biologically active molecules and biomaterials used for production of medicines and medical devices are biomacromolecules and bio-based polymers: nucleic acids, proteins, polysaccharides, lipids, macrocycles, polyhydroxyalkanoates, isoprenoids, and polyketides. A series of antibiotics are plant macrocycles and polyketides, scaffolds for tissue engineering are manufactured from bacterial-origin polyhydroxyalkanoates and insect protein silk fibroin, modern vaccines are nucleic acids loaded in lipid nanoparticles. Therefore, biomacromolecules and polymers of natural-origin are playing an increasing role in modern pharmaceutics and medicine. However, the natural properties of these biopolymers (informational, enzymatic, signal, regulatory, storage, structural, mechanical etc.) are not always adequately taken into account in the development of drugs and biomaterials with superior biomedical properties. The main feature of this special issue is to provide an open-source sharing of original research and review articles, which address the progress and fundamental aspects for the synthesis, characterization, properties, application, and natural functions of biomacromolecules and biobased polymers.
Dr. Anton P. Bonartsev
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- biobased polymers
- biomacromolecules
- biosynthesis
- natural properties
- drugs
- biomaterials
- therapeutic
- biocompatibility
- biomedical
- pharmaceutics
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