Showing papers in "Carbohydrate Polymers in 2018"

TL;DR: The various aspects of the investigation results of the bioactivities of polysaccharides were summarized, including its diversity pharmacological applications, such as immunoregulatory, anti-tumor,Anti-virus, antioxidation, and hypoglycemic activity, and their application in the treatment of disease are discussed.

TL;DR: Applications and structural characteristics of different types of active ingredients, such as growth factors, nanoparticles, nanostructures, and drug loaded chitosan hydrogels are summarized.

TL;DR: The development of packaging materials performance and their mechanical, degradability and thermal stability as well as antibacterial activity for utilization of bionanocomposites in different packaging application is considered.

TL;DR: This review focuses on the most recent progress made with respect to preparation, properties, and their salient accomplishments for drug delivery and tissue engineering of chitosan-based hydrogels.

TL;DR: The scope of this review is to summarize the extensive researches addressing agarose-based biomaterials in order to provide an in-depth understanding of its tissue engineering-related applications.

TL;DR: The results showed that lignin and hemicellulose were removed from the extracted cellulose through the delignification and mercerization process, respectively.

TL;DR: The prepared hydrogels reinforced with graphene oxide and bentonite could be served as eco-friendly, stable, efficient and reusable adsorbents for anionic dyes in wastewater treatment.

TL;DR: The results showed that the tensile strength and moduli of the bionanocomposites increased after being reinforced with SPNCCs and the optimum nanofiller content was 0.5%.

TL;DR: In this review, the current scenario of the use of xanthan gum for various tissue engineering applications, including its origin, structure, properties, modification, and processing for the preparation of the hydrogels and/or the scaffolds is precisely reviewed.

TL;DR: This review represents an overview of the application of chitosan-based hydrogels for wastewater treatment and helps researchers to better understand the potential of these adsorbents for wastewaterreatment.

TL;DR: The improved properties of the alkali treated CGF indicate that it could be an appropriate material for reinforcement in polymer composites.

TL;DR: This review has fully addressed the latest research on the biological activities of COS and the molecular mechanism behind these activities in a correlation with their physicochemical properties.

TL;DR: The physico-chemical, thermal, tensile and morphological properties of Furcraea foetida (FF) fiber are presented for the first time and indicated as a suitable alternative source for composite manufacture.

TL;DR: The results suggested MMT NS could support and maintain the porous structure, making an open excess for MB molecules, and the increasing proportion of MMTNS in hydrogel beads enhanced the MB removal.

TL;DR: Various possible composites of guar gum and their most probable applications in different fields are summarized in this review article.

TL;DR: An overview of developing various forms of carrageenan based hydrogels is provided, focusing on how these fabrication processes has an effect on physiochemical properties of the hydrogel.

TL;DR: Based on mechanical properties and antibacterial potential of the developed nanocomposite films, it can be envisaged to use these films for packaging applications.

TL;DR: Deep Eutectic Solvents (DES) are an alternative for ionic liquids, non- or low toxic, biodegradable multipurpose agents obtained via simple and convenient way and a large number of composition possibilities allow to tailor their properties.

TL;DR: Owing to the unique pH/NIR responsiveness, long time period drug releasing property, antibacterial and mechanical properties, together with their biodegradability and biocompatibility, the prepared PDA/TOCNFs hydrogel is highly promising as a new drug delivery vehicle, offering simple and safe alternatives to the conventional systems based on the petroleum-based polymers.

TL;DR: This review deals with the various techniques which can be used for the extraction of hemicellulose from biomass residues, purification and some potential applications of the extracted hemiceLLulose.

TL;DR: The current review intends to overview the studies in which wound dressings from naturally-occurring polymers, based on homopolysaccharides, were prepared and evaluated.

TL;DR: The developed hydrogels were injectable and significantly shortened wound recovery time in a full-thickness skin defect model, establishing a novel hydrogel material that may have applications in wound healing.

TL;DR: It has been concluded that CA electrospun nanofibers could be potentially applied as biocompatible and biodegradable for DDSs specifically in purpose-designed transdermal or wound dressing patches.

TL;DR: The obtained results suggested the possible use of produced PVA/Ch hydrogels incorporating LNPs in many different sectors, such as drug delivery, food packaging, wound dressing.

TL;DR: Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) are isolated from the sago seed shells by acid hydrolysis, revealing lower thermal stability for CNCs and networked structures and almost spherical shaped particles having 10-15nm in size.

TL;DR: Although the films showed very low toxicity to cells, they exhibited good antimicrobial activity and effectively extended the storage life of litchi as a packaging and provides the potential application for silver nanoparticles in food field.

TL;DR: SiO2in situ enhanced PVA/CS biodegradable films possessed not only excellent mechanical properties, but also barrier of oxygen and water for food packages to extend the perseveration time.

TL;DR: C Coffee husk represents an interesting source of cellulosic reinforcing materials that confers good reinforcing properties and was tested in thermoplastic starch films, whose elastic modulus increased by 186 and 121% when 1 wt% of CNCs from rice and coffee husks, respectively, was incorporated into the matrix.

TL;DR: This discussion presents a discussion that helps to unveil the whole panorama on the use of CNCs as drug delivery systems and points to relevant concerns that must be overcome to attain safe use of these nanostructures.

TL;DR: Modified chitosan films showed drastic 12 times increase in the elongation percentage value, hence enhanced flexibility, however, the tensile strength and Young's modulus decreased substantially by 82% and 98%, respectively.