The consumer demand for starch continues to grow to meet food consumption needs.
However, starch producers are increasingly looking towards non-food, industrial …

Flexible devices serve as important intelligent interfaces in various applications involving
health monitoring, biomedical therapies, and human–machine interfacing. To address the …

Polysaccharides, as one of the most prominent natural biopolymers, display numerous
biological activities and industrial applications. Nevertheless, some polysaccharides lack …

Starch has been a convenient, economically important polymer with substantial applications
in the food and processing industry. However, native starches present restricted …

Starch is one of the most common biodegradable polymers found in nature, and it is widely
utilized in the food and beverage, bioplastic industry, paper industry, textile, and biofuel …

Starch derivatives are versatile compounds that are widely used in the pharmaceutical
industry. This article reviews the advances in the research on hydrophilic and hydrophobic …

Since their discovery, magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) have become materials with great
potential, especially considering the applications of biomedical sciences. A series of works …

Starch is the second most abundantly available natural polymer in the world, after cellulose.
If we add its biodegradability and non-toxicity to the natural environment, it becomes a raw …

The ubiquity, low cost and biocompatibility make polysaccharides a material of choice in
food, pharmaceutical, cosmeceutical, textile and paper industries. From the age-old process …

Ionic liquids (ILs)-as environmentally friendly “green” solvents-have been progressively
used in various reactions as reagents, solvents and co-solvents including lipase-catalysed …