In the determination of the bioavailability of drugs administered orally, the drugs' solubility
and permeability play a crucial role. For absorption of drug molecules and production of a …

Photosynthetic semiconductor biohybrids integrate the best attributes of biological whole-
cell catalysts and semiconducting nanomaterials. Enzymatic machinery enveloped in its …

Self-assembly, which makes use of molecules rather than atomic units, offers a bottom-up
approach to the construction of new materials on multiple length scales.(1-9) By precisely …

Nanocrystalline cellulose (NCC) is an emerging renewable nanomaterial that holds promise
in many different applications, such as in personal care, chemicals, foods, pharmaceuticals …

Degradable polymers (both biomacromolecules and several synthetic polymers) for
biomedical applications have been promising very much in the recent past due to their low …

The human society is faced with daunting threats from bacterial infections. Over decades, a
variety of antibacterial polymeric nanosystems have exhibited great promise for the …

Truly sustainable plastics require renewable feedstocks coupled with efficient production
and end-of-life degradation/recycling processes. Some of the most useful degradable …

Nanoengineered drug delivery systems (nDDS) have been successfully used as clinical
tools for not only modulation of pharmacological drug release profile but also specific …

An important limitation in the development of biodegradable polymer microspheres for
controlled-release drug delivery applications has been the difficulty of specifically designing …

The present work introduces new hybrid materials based on the combination of layered
double hydroxides (LDH) and two biopolymers (a protein and a polysaccharide) to produce …