There is a current tendency towards bioactive natural products with applications in various
industries, such as pharmaceutical, biomedical, cosmetics and food. This has put some …

Nanotechnology refers to the control, manipulation, study and manufacture of structures and
devices at the nanometer size range. The small size, customized surface, improved solubility …

This article reviews available methods for the formation of alginate nano-aggregates,
nanocapsules and nanospheres. Primarily, alginate nanoparticles are being prepared by …

This review concerns the applications of some polysaccharides in the domain of
biomaterials and bioactive polymers. Natural polysaccharides from different sources have …

Alginate hydrogel beads are widely used as an encapsulation medium for biomedical,
bioprocessing, and pharmaceutical applications. The size and shape of the beads are often …

Polysaccharides have attracted more and more attentions and been recognized to be the
most promising materials in recent years because of their outstanding merits such as easily …

This review is addressed to the phase inversion process, which is not only a common, low-
energy route to make stable emulsions for a variety of industrial products spanning from food …

In the present paper the physico-chemical characterization of Ca-alginate microparticles
produced with different methods is presented. Ca-alginate microparticles were obtained …

The objective of this paper is to discuss the potential of sodium alginate as a biopolymer in
the formulation development and its allied applications. There is a growing trend in …

Alginate is an unbranched binary copolymer constituted of (1, 4) linked α-L-guluronic acid
and β-D-mannuronic acid. It is a high-molecular mass polysaccharide extracted from kelp …