Marine resources have tremendous potential for developing high-value biomaterials. The
last decade has seen an increasing number of biomaterials that originate from marine …

The growing demand for new, sophisticated, multifunctional materials has brought natural
structural composites into focus, since they underwent a substantial optimization during long …

This study was aimed to fabricate Zataria multiflora-derived silver nanoparticles (AgNPs)
and evaluate the antibacterial activity and biofilm inhibitory activity of plant-mediated …

Skeletal constructs of diverse marine sponges remain to be a sustainable source of
biocompatible porous biopolymer-based 3D scaffolds for tissue engineering and …

Tissue engineering (TE) is a field of regenerative medicine that has been experiencing a
special boom in recent years. Among various materials used as components of 3D scaffolds …

Preparing samples for analyses is perhaps the most important part to analyses. The varied
functional groups present on the surface of biopolymers bestow them appropriate adsorption …

Aminopolysaccharide chitin is one of the main structural biopolymers in sponges that is
responsible for the mechanical stability of their unique 3D-structured microfibrous and …

One-hundred-nanometer films consisting of silver, copper, and gold nanocrystallites were
prepared, and their antibacterial properties were quantitatively measured. The magnetron …

The chemical functionalization of polysaccharides to obtain functional materials has been of
great interest in the last decades. This traditional synthetic approach has drawbacks, such …

Skeletal biopolymers and proteins in marine organisms are present as complex mixtures
and have great potential applications in the biomedical field. The organic matrices of marine …