New Advances in Marine Derived Biomaterials: Recent Marine Peptides and Saccharides Research
A special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312). This special issue belongs to the section "Chemical Oceanography".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 June 2020) | Viewed by 5300
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biomaterials; biomass valorisation; hydrogels; tissue engineering
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Interests: the synthesis of fragments of selected saccharide antigens and their structural analogues; synthesis of metal-based nanoparticles for diagnostic and therapeutic applications; saccharides as tools in biomedicine; carbohydrates in catalysis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Ocean biodiversity is astonishing and, equivalently, it is a remarkable resource of biomaterials and chemicals including biostructures, lipids, enzymes, pigments and polysaccharides. Thanks to the significant technological advances in biological assays, synthesis, detection and characterisation of biomimetic materials, as well as in the area of glycomics, an ever-increasing number of bioactive compounds is being isolated and discovered. These bioactive compounds, ranging from simple saccharides or peptides to complex biopolymers or drugs, have been extensively used for designing and developing a diverse range of functional and biologically responsive biomaterials for tissue regenerative therapy, with good cell interaction and minimal inflammatory responses. Polysaccharides with diverse glyosidic bonds, conformational structures and varied interactions between saccharides are of high value for the development of biomaterials with tailored desired features.
This Special Issue aims to cover recent research advances on marine-derived biomaterials and new approaches for the valorisation of marine biomass, focusing on the role of marine-derived saccharides and peptides in biological systems, the interactions between biomolecules and marine polysaccharide sequences, and the development of tailored, designed, smart, personalised biomaterials that can modulate cell regeneration and immune system responses.
Dr. Amin ShavandiProf. Luigi Lay
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biocomposites
- biomimetics
- biomaterial
- polysaccharides
- carbohydrates
- tissue engineering
- chitin
- collagen
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