Showing papers in "Carbohydrate Polymers in 2019"

TL;DR: This work demonstrated that the CNCs and CNFs based hydrogels have great promise in a wide range of biomedical applications in the future.

TL;DR: A detailed review of the different types of retting processes, chemical and surface treatments and characterization techniques for natural fibers, and major findings from the literature are summarized.

TL;DR: The aims of this review are to provide an overview of the production of BC from different culture methods, to analyze the characteristics of particular BC productions, to indicate existing problems associated with different methods, and to choose suitable culture approaches for BC applications in different fields.

TL;DR: This review outlines new developments in the biomedical applications of environmentally friendly ('green') chitosan and ch itosan-blend electrospun nanofibers and Electrospinning is a novel technique for chitOSan nanofiber fabrication.

TL;DR: This paper reviews the state-of-the-art in terms of 3D printing technology using natural-derived feedstocks, including lignocellulose, starch, algae, and chitosan-based biopolymers, and proposes a strategical development roadmap with identified material property requirements, key challenges, as well as possible solutions.

TL;DR: Antioxidant, antiviral, antitumor and immunomodulating activity, with focus on the mechanisms involved, are discussed in the study.

TL;DR: A significant correspondence of fish shelf life and color changes of a nanocellulose-based pH-sensing indicator is demonstrated.

TL;DR: This review highlights many studies on3D printing applications of plant-derived cellulose and its derivatives and focuses on their roles and functions in 3D printing processes and the performance of the resultant printed objects.

TL;DR: This review investigates the significant role polysaccharide particles play in functional drug delivery and scrutinizes the methods of synthesizing and constructing functional poly Saccharide particle drug delivery systems that maintain and extend the functionality of the naturalpolysaccharides.

TL;DR: This review presented a significant overview of the latest advances in the field of EPS from genes to application, and emphasized in the general biosynthesis pathway together with genetic modules, multiple structures, functions, and respective functional mechanisms of LAB-derived EPSs, and the relationships between their structure and bioactivity.

TL;DR: It was found that metal-organic frameworks@cellulose aerogels composite materials can be recycled to adsorb Pb2+ and Cu2+ in water after simple cleaning and show great potential in water treatment.

TL;DR: Honey was incorporated into an alginate/PVA-based electrospun nanofibrous membrane to develop an efficient wound dressing material and showed enhanced antioxidant activity, suggesting the ability to control the overproduction of reactive oxygen species.

TL;DR: Polysaccharides have emerged as potential chemical entities exhibiting good anticancer activity across a variety of cancer cell lines and can be developed as alternatives of existing cancer chemotherapeutic agents, possessing selective activity against tumor cells with minimal toxic side-effects.

TL;DR: The viability of chitosan-based nanocomposites films was found to be better than native chitOSan and PVA films and the adsorption property of prepared chito-based Nanocomposite films was tested for the removal of AB 1 dye.

TL;DR: The novel findings about the influence of the distribution of amylose chain lengths and whole amylopectin size, in addition to amylOSE content alone, can provide guidance for rice breeders and food scientists in the selection of rices with improved functional properties.

TL;DR: A sustainable nanomaterial, cellulose nanofibril (CNF) was used to prepare aerogel sorbents to remove various contaminants in wastewater, confirming that the aerogels can maintain a high adsorption capacity over a wide pH range.

TL;DR: Tragacanth gum has been used in industrial settings such as food packaging and water treatment, as well as in the biomedical field as drug carriers and for wound healing purposes.

TL;DR: Corn starch films containing orange essential oil and the corn starch films incorporated with OEO showed higher antibacterial activity against Staphylococcus aureus and Listeria monocytogenes and the addition of OEO increased the morphological heterogeneity and contributed to the reduction of the tensile strength and elongation of the films.

TL;DR: The drug delivery evaluation showed that the DOX-loaded bio-nanocomposites enhanced anticancer properties and showed that this carrier system could be potentially used in anticancer drug delivery systems.

TL;DR: A human friendly, multifunctional and bio-based CS/PVA@SiO2/Ag NPs air filtration membranes via green electrospinning and UV-cured that has great potential application in eco-friendly air filTration materials, especially in personal airfiltration materials.

TL;DR: This work designed a self-healing composite hydrogel with antioxidant and antibacterial activities by using cellulose nanofibrils and tannic acid as functional additives, which opens a window for a broad application in the field of smart devices and surface engineering.

TL;DR: Interestingly, an in-vitro model of wound healing revealed that the nanocomposites allow faster wound closure and repair, compared to the control, which highlights the potential application of these novel injectable hydrogels as wound dressing.

TL;DR: The results obtained so far are promising for innovative and potential applications in the food field, which also include their integration into intelligent food packaging systems and their direct incorporation into food matrices as a flavor carrier system.

TL;DR: The results indicated that the κ-carrageenan nanocomposite films have potential applications in food packaging.

TL;DR: This work provides an effective method to sustainably fabricate porous composite electrodes from renewable cellulose for supercapacitor by preparing a hierarchical porous carbon aerogel as a support for conductive polymer polypyrrole.

TL;DR: The results of the application trial showed that the COB films containing 3% of BACNs (COB-3) were able to monitor the spoiling of fish and shrimp by visible color changes and could be used as an intelligent food packaging for monitoring animal-based protein food spoilage.

TL;DR: This review summarizes the scaffolds based on nanocellulose, including nanocrystalline cellulose and nanofibrillated cellulose, and proposes the challenges and potentials of NC-based TE scaffolds.

TL;DR: The results of histology and molecular testing in vivo demonstrated that the hybrid hydrogel could significantly enhance wound healing, collagen deposition, and induce skin adnexal regeneration by upregulating anti-inflammatory factors, and downregulating proinflammatory factors.

TL;DR: Comparative studies indicate that BCs are more effective for enhancing the hydrogels due to their higher aspect ratio, and the compressive strength of SA-PAM-BC hydrogel is 6.59 times higher than that of neat SA- PAM.

TL;DR: Three kinds of water-insoluble alginate-based nanofiber membranes were prepared by electrospinning and followed with crosslinking by calcium chloride, glutaraldehyde vapor, and trifluoroacetic acid to present excellent integrated adsorption performance toward methylene blue (MB).