For a hundred years or more, oil and natural gas has supplied fuel and other raw chemicals
to support economic growth. In the last decades their shrinking reservoirs and the increasing …

The family of hemicelluloses stands out as a very promising natural resource that can be
utilized as a biobased materials feedstock. An in-depth understanding of the hemicellulose …

This study demonstrates the preparation of a renewable and biocompatible hydrogel with
superior mechanical properties consisting of a gelatin matrix cross-linked with oxidized …

Xylan-based temperature/pH sensitive hydrogels were prepared by the crosslinking
copolymerization of xylan with N-isopropylacrylamide (NIPAm) and acrylic acid (AA) using …

Salecan is a novel water-soluble extracellular β-glucan produced by a salt-tolerant strain
Agrobacterium sp. ZX09. Salecan is suitable for the fabrication of hydrogels for biomedical …

In the present study, novel pH-responsive prodrug nanoparticles based on xylan-curcumin
(xyl-cur) conjugate were developed to enhance the therapeutic efficacy of curcumin in …

Antibacterial and antioxidant chitosan-xylan/cellulose nanowhiskers (CNW) nanocomposite
films were successfully prepared using CNW as nanofillers. The structure and morphology of …

Since the realization that global sustainability depends on renewable sources of materials
and energy, there has been an ever-increasing need to develop bio-based polymers that …

Structured xylan-based hydrogels, reinforced with cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs), have
successfully been prepared from water suspensions by cross-linking during freeze-casting …

This study focused on the assembly characteristics of debranched xylan onto cellulose
surfaces. A rye arabinoxylan polymer with an initial arabinose/xylose ratio of 0.53 was …