Alginate: properties and biomedical applications
Kuen Yong Lee,David J. Mooney +1 more
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This review will provide a comprehensive overview of general properties of alginate and its hydrogels, their biomedical applications, and suggest new perspectives for future studies with these polymers.About:
This article is published in Progress in Polymer Science.The article was published on 2012-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 5372 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Self-healing hydrogels.read more
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Recycling of textile dye using double network polymer from sodium alginate and superabsorbent polymer.
V. Dhanapal,K. Subramanian +1 more
TL;DR: The nearly identical visible absorption spectra of the fabrics dyed with virgin and recovered dyes indicated that the recovered dye retained its structural stability during column recovery and the dyed fabrics possess good color fastness properties.
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Oxygenation strategies for encapsulated islet and beta cell transplants.
TL;DR: This review summarizes fundamental aspects of islet microarchitecture and β-cell physiology as well as encapsulation approaches highlighting the need for adequate oxygenation and evaluates existing and emerging approaches for enhanced oxygen delivery to encapsulation devices, particularly with the advent ofβ-cell sources from stem cells that may enable the large-scale application of this approach.
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Characterization of a new endo-type polysaccharide lyase (PL) family 6 alginate lyase with cold-adapted and metal ions-resisted property.
TL;DR: A new alginate lyase gene, tsaly6A, has been cloned from marine bacterium Thalassomonas sp.
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A new insight to the effect of calcium concentration on gelation process and physical properties of alginate films
TL;DR: In this paper, a series of alginate films were prepared using constant alginates content (2% w/v) with various calcium chloride (CaCl2) concentrations in the crosslinking solution (0.375-6%) and the initial investigation of how the CaCl2 concentration affected the gelation process and physical properties was established.
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Alginate for cardiac regeneration: From seaweed to clinical trials.
Albert Ryszard Liberski,Najma Latif,Christophe M. Raynaud,Christian Bollensdorff,Magdi H. Yacoub +4 more
TL;DR: Current applications of alginate in cardiac regeneration as well as perspectives for theAlginate-dependent, cardiac regeneration strategies are reviewed.
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