Algae biotechnology for industrial wastewater treatment, bioenergy production, and high-value bioproducts

A Ahmad, F Banat, H Alsafar, SW Hasan - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
A growing world population is causing hazardous compounds to form at an increasingly
rapid rate, calling for ecological action. Wastewater management and treatment is an …

Microalgae: therapeutic potentials and applications

F Khavari, M Saidijam, M Taheri, F Nouri - Molecular biology reports, 2021 - Springer
Recently, special attention has been paid to marine origin compounds such as
carbohydrates, peptides, lipids, and carotenoids, which are extracted from microalgae and …

Stretchable and self-healable catechol-chitosan-diatom hydrogel for triboelectric generator and self-powered tremor sensor targeting at Parkinson disease

JN Kim, J Lee, H Lee, IK Oh - Nano Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
With increasing interest in human health, stretchable and wearable sensors have attracted a
lot of attention for real-time health monitoring. However, most wearable sensors require …

Inorganic-based biomaterials for rapid hemostasis and wound healing

Y Zheng, J Wu, Y Zhu, C Wu - Chemical Science, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The challenge for the treatment of severe traumas poses an urgent clinical need for the
development of biomaterials to achieve rapid hemostasis and wound healing. In the past …

A diatom-based biohybrid microrobot with a high drug-loading capacity and pH-sensitive drug release for target therapy

M Li, J Wu, D Lin, J Yang, N Jiao, Y Wang, L Liu - Acta Biomaterialia, 2022 - Elsevier
Targeted delivery is a promising mean for various biomedical applications, and various
micro/nano robots have been created for drug delivery. Mesoporous silica has been shown …

Customized materials-assisted microorganisms in tumor therapeutics

QW Chen, JY Qiao, XH Liu, C Zhang… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Microorganisms have been extensively applied as active biotherapeutic agents or drug
delivery vehicles for antitumor treatment because of their unparalleled bio-functionalities …

Wealth from waste: Diatoms as tools for phycoremediation of wastewater and for obtaining value from the biomass

TK Marella, IY López-Pacheco, R Parra-Saldívar… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Diatoms are a type of microalgae with diverse capabilities which make them useful for
multiple applications. The abundance of diatoms in water bodies facilitates the removal of …

[HTML][HTML] Microalgae-based drug delivery systems in biomedical applications

H Huang, Y Lang, S Wang, M Zhou - Engineered Regeneration, 2024 - Elsevier
Over decades of development, the modern drug delivery system continues to grapple with
numerous challenges, including drug loading inefficiencies, issues of immunogenicity, and …

New trends in biotechnological applications of photosynthetic microorganisms

A Dawiec-Liśniewska, D Podstawczyk, A Bastrzyk… - Biotechnology …, 2022 - Elsevier
As a source of several valuable products, photosynthetic microorganisms (microalgae and
cyanobacteria) have many applications in biomedical, electrochemical, and urban-space …

Diatoms green nanotechnology for biosilica-based drug delivery systems

M Terracciano, L De Stefano, I Rea - Pharmaceutics, 2018 - mdpi.com
Diatom microalgae are the most outstanding natural source of porous silica. The diatom cell
is enclosed in a three-dimensional (3-D) ordered nanopatterned silica cell wall, called …