Chitin is one of the most diverse and naturally occurring biopolymers, and it is mainly
present in crustaceans, insects, and fungi. Chitosan is derived from chitin by deacetylation …

Alginate is an edible heteropolysaccharide that abundantly available in the brown seaweed
and the capsule of bacteria such as Azotobacter sp. and Pseudomonas sp. Owing to …

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 …

Chitin derived from the seafood wastes such as waste crab, shrimp and lobster shells is
abundant and renewable, and will become one of the most important chemical raw …

Wound dressings are designed to support the wound bed and protect it from the factors that
may delay or impede its healing such as contaminations and moisture-loss, thereby …

Chitin is a promising natural polymer to produce functional materials due to the attractive
combination of abundance, price, favorable biological properties, and biodegradability …

In this review we describe recent advances of biocomposites consisting of cellulose, chitin,
and chitosan. These polysaccharides are very important because they are abundant and …

Ionic liquids (ILs) have huge potential to provide advances in many areas such as energy,
pharmaceutical formulations, biomedical sciences, and technology. In the biomedical field …

Chitosan is a versatile biopolymer due to its biocompatibility, biodegradability, antimicrobial,
non-toxic, mucoadhesive, and highly adsorptive properties. Chitosan and its derivatives …

Smart materials based on biomaterials have been shown growing interest by researchers.
This paper investigated pH-indicator film with less leaching containing betalain molecule …