Chitin is the second most abundant biopolymer and functions as the main structural
component in a variety of living organisms. In nature, chitin rarely occurs in a pure form, but …

Marine resources have tremendous potential for developing high-value biomaterials. The
last decade has seen an increasing number of biomaterials that originate from marine …

The growing demand for new, sophisticated, multifunctional materials has brought natural
structural composites into focus, since they underwent a substantial optimization during long …

Microbe‐mediated mineralization is ubiquitous in nature, involving bacteria, fungi, viruses,
and algae. These mineralization processes comprise calcification, silicification, and iron …

Aquatic invertebrates are a major source of biomaterials and bioactive natural products that
can find applications as pharmaceutics, nutraceutics, cosmetics, antibiotics, antifouling …

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

The marine industry has been a major user of polymer composites for over 50 years. There
has been a strong historical preference for glass fibre reinforced thermoset polymers, mainly …

Modern scaffolding strategies include two key ways: to produce requested 3D constructs
from corresponding precursors using technological tools, or simply use naturally already pre …

Collagens from a wide array of animals have been explored for use in tissue engineering in
an effort to replicate the native extracellular environment of the body. Marine-derived …

For decades, collagen has been among the most widely used biomaterials with several
biomedical applications. Recently, researchers have shown a keen interest in collagen …