New Insights into Polysaccharide-Based Scaffolds: Design, Production and Applications
A special issue of Polysaccharides (ISSN 2673-4176).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 August 2026 | Viewed by 1203
Special Issue Editor
Interests: polysaccharides; biopolymers; biomaterials; electrospinning; glycosaminoglycans
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Natural and synthetic polysaccharides represent intriguing candidates as scaffolding materials for biomedical and technological applications, ranging from tissue engineering, drug delivery, and biosensing to energy storage. Polysaccharide macromolecules consist of monosaccharide units connected by glycosidic bonds with functional groups on the polymeric backbone, enabling structural modifications. This feature, together with their biodegradability, biocompatibility, and non-toxicity aspects, encourages the investigation of these biopolymers. This Special Issue aims to highlight the recent advances in the area of scaffolds, with a particular interest in the design, production characterization and performance evaluation of those containing native or suitably functionalized polysaccharides for tissue engineering and biomedical applications. Depending on the design, topics include (but are not limited to) hydrogels and porous, fibrous, and composite scaffolds. Fabrication method topics may pertain to solvent casting, phase separation, electrospinning, freeze-drying, 3D printing, etc.
Dr. Antonio Laezza
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- polysaccharides
- scaffolds
- biomaterials
- structural functionalization
- tissue engineering
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