- Review
Trehalose and Trehalose-based Polymers for Environmentally Benign, Biocompatible and Bioactive Materials
- Naozumi Teramoto,
- Navzer D. Sachinvala and
- Mitsuhiro Shibata
Trehalose is a non-reducing disaccharide that is found in many organisms but not in mammals. This sugar plays important roles in cryptobiosis of selaginella mosses, tardigrades (water bears), and other animals which revive with water from a state of...