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

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 …

Biopolymers like cellulose, polysaccharides, chitosan, starch, chitin, and alginates have
sparked an increasing curiosity in creating natural replacements for synthetic polymers …

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

Chitin is a long-chain polymer of N-acetyl-glucosamine, which is regularly found in the
exoskeleton of arthropods including insects, shellfish and the cell wall of fungi. It has been …

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

Chitin as one of the fundamental structural biological materials widely occurring in broad
diversity of uni-and multicellular organisms focuses attention of experts in biomedicine …

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 …