Lignocellulose has been extensively researched over the past decades in response to the
growing global significance of renewable resources and environment-friendly materials …

Biomass has emerged as a potential alternative feedstock to dwindling fossil fuel reserves.
Starting in the 1990s, extensive research has been directed towards the synthesis of useful …

Hyaluronic acid (HA) is a natural, linear, endogenous polysaccharide that plays important
physiological and biological roles in the human body. Nowadays, among biopolymers, HA is …

Super adsorbents exhibit great potential to remove pollutants from media or store
considerable amounts of water, which may undermine the pressure triggered by …

Salecan is a novel microbial polysaccharide produced by Agrobacterium sp. ZX09. The salt-
tolerant strain was isolated from a soil sample in our laboratory and the 16S rDNA sequence …

Injectable hydrogels are important cell scaffolding materials for tissue engineering and
regenerative medicine. Here, we report a new class of biocompatible and biodegradable …

A thermal/pH-sensitive interpenetrating network (IPN) hydrogel was prepared facilely from
starch and poly (α-l-lysine) through amino-anhydride and azide-alkyne double-click …

A robust synthetic strategy of biopolymer-based hydrogels has been developed where
hyaluronic acid derivatives reacted through aqueous Diels–Alder chemistry without the …

The hemicellulose xylan, which has immunomodulatory effects, has been combined with
chitosan to form a composite hydrogel to improve the healing of bone fractures. This …

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 …