Advanced Natural Product Technology: Extraction, Separation, and Analysis

Dear Colleagues,

In an age where we can face a range of daily challenges, people are looking for alternative solutions to improve their quality of life. This can translate into pursuing a healthier lifestyle, for example, by changing diets and eliminating unhealthy eating habits. It can also involve finding healthy alternatives through the application of natural products in various forms. From this perspective, science and research should focus on the discovery of natural products and the characterization of their properties to benefit people's wellbeing. Moreover, by exploiting the unique properties of natural products, scientist can also improve the techniques utilized for separating and quantifying the bioactive molecules present in these products.

This Special Issue on “Advanced Natural Product Technology: Extraction, Separation, and Analysis” seeks high-quality works focusing on the main modern laboratory methods applicable to natural products and the characterization of their curative potential. As natural matrices include not only those derived from plant material, but all substances produced by living systems (silk, corn starch, bioplastics, milk, soil, coal, insects, products from bees, etc.), this Special Issue will play a valuable role by showcasing the results obtained in ongoing research in this area.

Thus, this Special Issue will also include the following topics:

• Products obtained through the use of organic chemistry and natural bio-synthesis;
• Natural products used in the cosmetic industry, dietary supplements, and food ingredients produced from natural sources, without added artificial ingredients;
• Animal and insect products.

Topics include, but are not limited to, methods such as solvent extraction, supercritical fluid extraction, distillation, ultrasound-assisted extraction, decoction, maceration, microwave-assisted extraction, HPLC, and gas chromatography separation, which are applicable to the majority of natural matrices, not only to plant-based materials, and can be a starting point in obtaining high-quality products for human consumption or the treatment of various diseases.

We look forward to collaborating with you.

Dr. Adela Ramona Moise
Prof. Dr. Daniel Severus Dezmirean
Guest Editors

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