Over the last decades, alginates, natural multifunctional polymers, have increasingly drawn
attention as attractive compounds in the biomedical and pharmaceutical fields due to their …

Natural polysaccharides from different sources have long been studied and widely used in
different areas, such as food and feed, medicine and pharmaceutics, and in papermaking. In …

Receptor‐mediated drug delivery presents an opportunity to enhance therapeutic efficiency
by accumulating drug within the tissue of interest and reducing undesired, off‐target effects …

A vast majority of alginate particles exist as spheres in most practical uses, and both the
particle shape and size are the key factors dominating the applications and performance of …

The oral vaccine has attracted much interest due to easy administration, induction of local
and systemic immune responses, and pain relief. Nowadays, functional nanoparticles and …

Self-assembling peptides have been explored as building blocks to construct functional
materials that can be used in a broad range of biomedical applications. This account gives …

Owing to the absence of surfactants, Pickering emulsion shows little toxicity and emerges as
an alternative for preparing potential carriers in biomedical area. Alginate particles are …

Plastics have found widespread use in the fields of cosmetic, engineering, and medical
sciences due to their wide-ranging mechanical and physical properties, as well as suitability …

A response surface methodology based on Box-Behnken design was employed to develop
fucoxanthin (FX) delivery nanocarrier from alginate (ALG) and chitosan (CS). The FX-loaded …

Alginate (ALG) cross-linking by CaCl2 is a promising strategy to obtain modified-release
drug delivery systems with mucoadhesive properties. However, current technologies to …