Biobased and Biodegradable Polymers for Biomedical Applications
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomacromolecules, Biobased and Biodegradable Polymers".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2022) | Viewed by 2059
Special Issue Editor
Interests: nanodrugs; drug delivery; natural polymers; oxidoreductase-based enzymatic polymerization; antioxidant polymers; antimicrobial functionalization; medical textiles; polymers for scaffolds and drug delivery applications; pH sensitive polymers for biosensor; wound healing dressing materials; geopolymers for construction
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The tremendous economic development is one of the biggest achievements of the 21st centuries. However, humans are also faced with the consequent irrecoverable ecological damage. Plastic pollution is now a global crisis and generates problems at every stage from production to disposal and incineration. Biobased polymers are partially or fully obtained from biomass, or are polymers produced by living organisms. They can be categorized as biodegradable and non-biodegradable polymers. The degradation of polymers generally occurs by biochemical processes like microorganisms-involved degradation, and this is very closely related with environmental issues.
Prof. Dr. Suyeon Kim
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- biodegradable polymers
- bioplastics
- biopolymers in medical applications
- biopolymeric scaffolds
- sustainability
- enzymatic degradation
- byproducts of bioplastics
