Properties and Applications of Alginates

Alginates are biodegradable, biocompatible, renewable, and natural polysaccharides in brown marine algae. Properties and Applications of Alginates provides an overview of the state of the art of chemical and material properties of alginates and biomedical and nanotechnology mechanisms underlying alg...

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Other Authors: Deniz, Irem (Editor), Imamoglu, Esra (Editor), Keskin-Gundogdu, Tugba (Editor)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: IntechOpen 2022
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Summary:Alginates are biodegradable, biocompatible, renewable, and natural polysaccharides in brown marine algae. Properties and Applications of Alginates provides an overview of the state of the art of chemical and material properties of alginates and biomedical and nanotechnology mechanisms underlying alginate biosynthesis. It discusses alginate-based materials' fundamentals that combine research and technological advances with current limitations. Moreover, novel technologies using alginate composites are introduced, and as well as the latest developments in alginate-based technologies were reviewed. It also examines potential uses of alginates in immobilized biocatalysts, nanoparticle synthesis, wastewater treatment, heavy metal removal, agriculture, pharmaceuticals, and biomedicine.
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (174 p.)
ISBN:intechopen.94635
9781839695001
9781839694998
9781839695018
Access:Open Access