Superabsorbent polymers: from long-established, microplastics generating systems, to sustainable, biodegradable and future proof alternatives

J Chen, J Wu, P Raffa, F Picchioni… - Progress in Polymer …, 2022 - Elsevier
Superabsorbent polymers (SAPs) play important roles in our daily life, as they are applied in
products for hygiene, agriculture, construction, etc. The most successful commercially used …

Carrageenan based hydrogels for drug delivery, tissue engineering and wound healing

R Yegappan, V Selvaprithiviraj, S Amirthalingam… - Carbohydrate …, 2018 - Elsevier
Carrageenan is a class of naturally occurring sulphated polysaccharides, which is currently
a promising candidate in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine as it resemblances …

Carbon dot biopolymer-based flexible functional films for antioxidant and food monitoring applications

P Das, S Ganguly, SR Ahmed… - ACS Applied Polymer …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Heteroatom-doped carbon dot (CD)-reinforced flexible, antioxidant, and UV-resistant
polymeric thin films have been fabricated by a facile physical compounding strategy …

Recent advances in cellulose, pectin, carrageenan and alginate-based oral drug delivery systems

N Raghav, C Vashisth, N Mor, P Arya… - International journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Polymers-based drug delivery systems constitute one of the highly explored thrust areas in
the field of the medicinal and pharmaceutical industries. In the past years, the properties of …

Chemical and physical Chitosan modification for designing enzymatic industrial biocatalysts: How to choose the best strategy?

YL Nunes, FL de Menezes, IG de Sousa… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Chitosan is one of the most abundant natural polymer worldwide, and due to its inherent
characteristics, its use in industrial processes has been extensively explored. Because it is …

Review on magnetic natural polymer constructed hydrogels as vehicles for drug delivery

J Liao, H Huang - Biomacromolecules, 2020 - ACS Publications
Hydrogels prepared from natural polymers have captured extensive attention over the past
decades because of their exceptional biocompatibility and nontoxicity, ease of gelation, and …

Polysaccharide and polypeptide based injectable thermo-sensitive hydrogels for local biomedical applications

HF Darge, AT Andrgie, HC Tsai, JY Lai - International journal of biological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Injectable thermo-responsive hydrogels have been studied for various biomedical
applications including; drug delivery, cell encapsulation, and tissue repairing. There are …

Investigation of pectin/starch hydrogel as a carrier for oral delivery of probiotic bacteria

A Dafe, H Etemadi, A Dilmaghani… - International Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
The present study highlights the fabrication of novel food-grade hydrogel particles based on
pectin and starch for probiotic colon delivery. Lactobacillus plantarum ATCC: 13643 (L …

[HTML][HTML] Polysaccharide based superabsorbent hydrogels and their methods of synthesis: A review

MA Qureshi, N Nishat, S Jadoun, MZ Ansari - … Polymer Technologies and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Since the emergence of a new concept “superabsorbent polymer” also referred as “slush
powder” in 1950s, considerable interest and rapid progress have been put by scientist and …

pH-dependent swelling and antibiotic release from citric acid crosslinked poly (vinyl alcohol)(PVA)/nano silver hydrogels

M Sabzi, MJ Afshari, M Babaahmadi… - Colloids and Surfaces B …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this work, a pH-sensitive and antibacterial drug delivery system based on poly (vinyl
alcohol)(PVA)/citric acid (CA)/Ag nanoparticles (NPs) was designed using a completely …