Seaweeds (marine macroalgae) are autotrophic organisms capable of producing many
compounds of interest. For a long time, seaweeds have been seen as a great nutritional …

Seaweeds have received huge interest in recent years given their promising potentialities.
Their antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antitumor, hypolipemic, and anticoagulant effects are …

The current review provides an overview of different types of superabsorbent polymers
(SAPs) together with appropriate strategies elaborated to enable their synthesis. The main …

Seaweeds are abundant sources of diverse bioactive compounds with various properties
and mechanisms of action. These compounds offer protective effects, high nutritional value …

In modern times, seaweeds have become widely involved in several biotechnological
applications due to the variety of their constituent bioactive compounds. The consumption of …

The hydrocolloids carrageenan and agar are the major fraction industrially extracted and
commercialized from red seaweeds. However, this type of macroalgae also contains a …

Polysaccharides a large chain of simple sugars covalently linked by glycosidic bonds which
are obtained from living organisms and microbes commercially used in food and …

The use of seaweed for therapeutic purposes is ancient, but only in the last decade, with
advanced technologies, has it been possible to extract seaweed's bioactive compounds and …

Algal polysaccharides have become more popular in the food and packaging industry
because of their excellent physicochemical properties. Further, the use of biodegradable …

Agar is a jelly-like biopolymer synthesized by many red seaweeds as their major cell wall
component. Due to its excellent rheological properties, it has been exploited commercially …