Numerous compounds present in the ocean are contributing to the development of the
biomedical field. Agarose, a polysaccharide derived from marine red algae, plays a vital role …

Among the various natural polymers, polysaccharides are one of the oldest biopolymers
present on the Earth. They play a very crucial role in the survival of both animals and plants …

Polysaccharides are ubiquitous, generally benign in nature, and compatible with many
tissues in biomedical situations, making them appealing candidates for new materials such …

Agarose was successfully modified with octenyl succinic anhydride (OSA) and the factors
affecting OSA modifying process were studied. The degree of substitution (DS) could be …

Agarose sulfates are bioactive modified polysaccharides important for application. To obtain
the bioactive agarose derivatives and expand the range of their potential use, the …

Hydrogel forming agarose-L-phenylalanine ester (Ag-PAEst) was synthesized in a facile
microwave mediated method involving the reaction of agarose with fluorenyl …

A diverse array of functionally modified seaweed polysaccharide derivatives were prepared,
which would be described in this account principally based on the reports published by us …

A water soluble derivative in 98% yield with 23.1% incorporation of maleoyl groups was
obtained by esterification of agarose with maleic anhydride. Graft copolymers were …

New fluorescent polymeric materials were synthesized by grafting the nucleobase cytosine
on to the backbone of agarose and κ-carrageenan, employing a rapid water based method …

Microwave assisted facile synthesis of a fluorescent agarose-l-tryptophan hydrogel material
employing carbodiimide chemistry (dicyclohexylcarbodiimide/4-dimethylaminopyridine; …