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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Advances in biopolymer-based membrane preparation and applications
Francesco Galiano,Kelly Briceño,Tiziana Marino,Antonio Molino,Knud Villy Christensen,Alberto Figoli +5 more
TL;DR: The use of biopolymers for the preparation of membranes, in fact, is very well documented in literature even if their application on a larger scale is still a challenge as discussed by the authors.
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A critical review of resource recovery from municipal wastewater treatment plants – market supply potentials, technologies and bottlenecks
Philipp Kehrein,Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht,Patricia Osseweijer,Marianna Garfí,Jo Dewulf,John A. Posada +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the potential of 11 resources recoverable from municipal wastewater treatment plants to supply national resource consumption is investigated in academia and nine non-technical bottlenecks are identified in literature that have to be overcome to successfully implement these technologies into wastewater treatment process designs.
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Print me an organ! Why we are not there yet
TL;DR: An in-depth analysis of recent improvements in the bioprinting techniques, progress in bio-ink development, implementation of new biopprinting and tissue maturation strategies, and the role of polymer science is presented.
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Alginate biomaterial for the treatment of myocardial infarction: Progress, translational strategies, and clinical outlook: From ocean algae to patient bedside.
Emil Ruvinov,Smadar Cohen +1 more
TL;DR: The therapeutic potential of injectable acellular alginate implants to inhibit the damaging processes after MI, leading to myocardial repair and tissue reconstruction is shown.
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Cellulose nanocrystal–alginate hydrogel beads as novel adsorbents for organic dyes in aqueous solutions
TL;DR: In this paper, a new generation of recyclable adsorbents comprising of cellulose nanocrystals and alginate (CNC-ALG) with superior adsorption capacity was developed.
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