[HTML][HTML] Carbohydrate biopolymers, lignin based adsorbents for removal of heavy metals (Cd2+, Pb2+, Zn2+) from wastewater, regeneration and reuse for spent …

BG Fouda-Mbanga, E Prabakaran, K Pillay - Biotechnology Reports, 2021 - Elsevier
The living organisms are created by the carbohydrate biopolymers such as chitosan,
carboxymethyl cellulose, alginate and lignin. These carbohydrate biopolymers have been …

A review on latest innovations in natural gums based hydrogels: Preparations & applications

S Ahmad, M Ahmad, K Manzoor, R Purwar… - International journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
The prospective uses of natural gum polysaccharides in various aspects of food, water,
energy, biotechnology, environment and medicine industries, have garnered a great deal of …

Titania modified gum tragacanth based hydrogel nanocomposite for water remediation

B Sharma, S Thakur, G Mamba, RK Gupta… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this work, 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate cross-linked gum tragacanth hydrogel (GumT-cl-
HEMA) was systematically synthesized to attain maximum swelling (396.9%) by simple …

Status and future scope of plant-based green hydrogels in biomedical engineering

R Mohammadinejad, H Maleki, E Larrañeta… - Applied Materials …, 2019 - Elsevier
Hydrogels are the most iconic class of soft materials, and since their first report in the
literature, they have attracted the attention of uncountable researchers. Over the past two …

Novel magnetic bio-sorbent hydrogel beads based on modified gum tragacanth/graphene oxide: Removal of heavy metals and dyes from water

R Sahraei, ZS Pour, M Ghaemy - Journal of cleaner production, 2017 - Elsevier
New magnetic bio-sorbent hydrogel beads were prepared based on modified biopolymer
gum tragacanth (GT), polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), and graphene oxide (GO) by using gelation …

Recent progress in the industrial and biomedical applications of tragacanth gum: A review

EN Zare, P Makvandi, FR Tay - Carbohydrate polymers, 2019 - Elsevier
Natural polymers have distinct advantages over synthetic polymers because of their
abundance, biocompatibility, and biodegradability. Tragacanth gum, an anionic …

[HTML][HTML] Flame retardant high-power Li-S flexible batteries enabled by bio-macromolecular binder integrating conformal fractions

C Senthil, SS Kim, HY Jung - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Polymer binders for sulfur cathodes play a very critical role as they prerequisites for an in-
situ immobilization against polysulfide shuttle and volume change, while ensuring good …

Gum Tragacanth: Structure, characteristics and applications in foods

M Nejatian, S Abbasi, F Azarikia - International Journal of Biological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Due to the high demand (consumers and regulatory authorities) on elimination or reduction
of 'additives' in food and other health related products, there is increasing interest on natural …

[HTML][HTML] Gum tragacanth (GT): a versatile biocompatible material beyond borders

ME Taghavizadeh Yazdi, S Nazarnezhad, SH Mousavi… - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
The use of naturally occurring materials in biomedicine has been increasingly attracting the
researchers' interest and, in this regard, gum tragacanth (GT) is recently showing great …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in natural gum-based biomaterials for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine: A review

R Mohammadinejad, A Kumar, M Ranjbar-Mohammadi… - Polymers, 2020 - mdpi.com
The engineering of tissues under a three-dimensional (3D) microenvironment is a great
challenge and needs a suitable supporting biomaterial-based scaffold that may facilitate cell …