Engineered materials are ubiquitous throughout society and are critical to the development
of modern technology, yet many current material systems are inexorably tied to widespread …

Since the discovery of deep eutectic solvents (DESs) in 2003, significant progress has been
made in the field, specifically advancing aspects of their preparation and physicochemical …

Chitin/chitosan and collagen are two of the most important bioactive compounds, with
applications in the pharmaceutical, veterinary, nutraceutical, cosmetic, biomaterials, and …

Marine sponges of the subclass Keratosa originated on our planet about 900 million years
ago and represent evolutionarily ancient and hierarchically structured biological materials …

Skeletal constructs of diverse marine sponges remain to be a sustainable source of
biocompatible porous biopolymer-based 3D scaffolds for tissue engineering and …

Gallic acid (GA) is one of the most important polyphenols, being widely used in the food,
cosmetic, and pharmaceutical industries due to its biological effects such as antioxidant …

The strategic utilization of hazardous particulate waste in eliminating environmental
pollution is an important research hotspot. Herein, abundantly available hazardous solid …

Different non-classical crystallization mechanisms have been invoked to explain structural
and compositional properties of biocrystals. The identification of precursor amorphous …

Aminopolysaccharide chitin is one of the main structural biopolymers in sponges that is
responsible for the mechanical stability of their unique 3D-structured microfibrous and …

The structural biopolymer spongin in the form of a 3D scaffold resembles in shape and size
numerous species of industrially useful marine keratosan demosponges. Due to the large …