Alginate microparticles as oral colon drug delivery device: A review

L Agüero, D Zaldivar-Silva, L Peña, ML Dias - Carbohydrate polymers, 2017 - Elsevier
The increase in the research interest on alginate microparticles in pharmaceutical and
biomedical areas confirms its potential use as an effective matrix for drug and cell delivery …

Sodium alginate and alginic acid as pharmaceutical excipients for tablet formulation: Structure-function relationship

NM Sanchez-Ballester, B Bataille, I Soulairol - Carbohydrate Polymers, 2021 - Elsevier
Alginic acid and its sodium salt are well-accepted pharmaceutical excipients fulfilling several
roles in the development of solid oral dosage forms. Although they have attractive …

Structural characterization of sodium alginate and calcium alginate

H Hecht, S Srebnik - Biomacromolecules, 2016 - ACS Publications
Alginate readily aggregates and forms a physical gel in the presence of cations. The
association of the chains, and ultimately gel structure and mechanics, depends not only on …

Alginate gel-based carriers for encapsulation of carotenoids: on challenges and applications

M Milivojević, A Popović, I Pajić-Lijaković, I Šoštarić… - Gels, 2023 - mdpi.com
Sodium alginate is one of the most interesting and the most investigated and applied
biopolymers due to its advantageous properties. Among them, easy, simple, mild, rapid, non …

Blood clot-inspired viscoelastic fibrin gel: new aqueous binder for silicon anodes in lithium ion batteries

WJ Kim, JG Kang, DW Kim - Energy Storage Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
Binders are a key component of Si anodes for lithium-ion batteries. Many studies have been
devoted to exploring new binders capable of suppressing electrical isolation under large …

A rapid and accurate method for the quantitative estimation of natural polysaccharides and their fractions using high performance size exclusion chromatography …

KL Cheong, DT Wu, J Zhao, SP Li - Journal of Chromatography A, 2015 - Elsevier
In this study, a rapid and accurate method for quantitative analysis of natural
polysaccharides and their different fractions was developed. Firstly, high performance size …

Dilute polyelectrolyte solutions: recent progress and open questions

CG Lopez, A Matsumoto, AQ Shen - Soft Matter, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Polyelectrolytes are a class of polymers possessing ionic groups on their repeating units.
Since counterions can dissociate from the polymer backbone, polyelectrolyte chains are …

Simple Halogen‐Free, Biobased Organic Salts Convert Glycidol to Glycerol Carbonate under Atmospheric CO2 Pressure

J Poolwong, V Aomchad, S Del Gobbo… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Glycerol carbonate (GC) has emerged as an attractive synthetic target due to various
promising technological applications. Among several viable strategies to produce GC from …

Alginate-based smart materials and their application: Recent advances and perspectives

C Maity, N Das - Topics in Current Chemistry, 2022 - Springer
Nature produces materials using available molecular building blocks following a bottom-up
approach. These materials are formed with great precision and flexibility in a controlled …

Polyionic complexes of chitosan-N-arginine with alginate as pH responsive and mucoadhesive particles for oral drug delivery applications

ACMF Patta, PD Mathews, RRM Madrid… - International journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
The production of efficient micro and nanoparticles of pH-responsive and mucoadhesive
properties is of high scrutiny. We produced a drug carrier bioparticle providing such …