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Polysaccharide-based aerogels—Promising biodegradable carriers for drug delivery systems
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This review focuses on the state-of-the-art of the production of polysaccharide-based aerogels with emphasis on the influence of processing parameters on the resulting end material properties.About:
This article is published in Carbohydrate Polymers.The article was published on 2011-10-15. It has received 594 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Drug carrier & Drug delivery.read more
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Preparation, properties and applications of polysaccharide nanocrystals in advanced functional nanomaterials: a review
TL;DR: This article critically and comprehensively reviews the emerging polysaccharide nanocrystal-based functional nanomaterials with special applications, such as biomedical materials, biomimetic optical nanmaterials, bio-inspired mechanically adaptive nanommaterials, permselective nanostructured membranes, template for synthesizing inorganic nanoparticles, polymer electrolytes, emulsion nano-stabilizer and decontamination of organic pollutants.
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Cellulose nanocrystals: synthesis, functional properties, and applications.
Johnsy George,S. N. Sabapathi +1 more
TL;DR: This review aims to collate the knowledge available about the sources, chemical structure, and physical and chemical isolation procedures, as well as describes the mechanical, optical, and rheological properties, of cellulose nanocrystals.
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Cellulose nanocrystals and cellulose nanofibrils based hydrogels for biomedical applications.
Haishun Du,Haishun Du,Haishun Du,Wei Liu,Miaomiao Zhang,Chuanling Si,Chuanling Si,Xinyu Zhang,Bin Li +8 more
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.
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Recent advances in nanocellulose for biomedical applications
Mehdi Jorfi,E. Johan Foster +1 more
TL;DR: This review reflects on recent advancements in the design and fabrication of advanced nanocellulose-based biomaterials that are promising for biomedical applications and discusses material requirements for each application, along with the challenges that the materials might face.
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A review of bioactive plant polysaccharides: Biological activities, functionalization, and biomedical applications
TL;DR: The main goal of this paper was to review the sources, natively biological activities, isolation, characterization, and the structural features of natively bioactive polysaccharides from wood species to maximally exploit their various valuable properties in previously unperceived applications.
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The molecular basis of long-term changes in polysaccharide based systems
John M.V. Blanshard,A.H. Muhr +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of polysaccharides in a wide variety of systems ranging from dilute solutions to low moisture solids are considered. And the effects reported in the literature vary from the modification on storage of the flow properties of poly-saccharide solutions, syneresis, swelling and annealing of gel systems to the slow rearrangement of chains in concentrated materials.
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Starch-based hydrogel for biomedical applications
TL;DR: In this paper, a starch-based hydrogel for the controlled delivery of a biologically active agent is described, which comprises a dispersed phase, and a dispersion medium consisting substantially of water.