Wound healing is a complicated and continuous process affected by several factors, and it
needs an appropriate surrounding to achieve accelerated healing. At present, various …

Alginate biopolymer has been used in the design and development of several wound
dressing materials in order to improve the efficiency of wound healing. Mainly, alginate …

Tissue engineering is an important therapeutic strategy to be used in regenerative medicine
in the present and in the future. Functional biomaterials research is focused on the …

Over the last few decades there has been a huge interest in nanostructured functional
materials and assembly techniques for preparing functional molecular assemblies with …

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 …

Chitosan is a marine-origin polysaccharide obtained from the deacetylation of chitin, the
main component of crustaceans' exoskeleton, and the second most abundant in nature …

Oceans are a vast source of natural substances. In them, we find various compounds with
wide biotechnological and biomedical applicabilities. The exploitation of the sea as a …

Layer-by-layer (LbL) was first introduced as a surface modification technique based on the
sequential spontaneous adsorption of at least two distinct materials onto planar substrates …

Harvesting sustainable energy opens new avenues for powering portable electronic devices
using triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs). Synthetic metals and polymers are used to …

Layer-by-layer (LbL) assembly has attracted much interest because of its ability to provide
nanoscale control over film characteristics and because of a wide choice of available …