“…The most varied compounds are those that can establish supramolecular interactions either through the hydrophobic effect or through, e.g., hydrogen bonds. To give some examples we can mention surfactants ( Valente and Söderman, 2014 ; dos Santos Silva Araújo et al, 2021 ), drugs ( Uekama et al, 1998 ; Rajbanshi et al, 2018 ; Saokham et al, 2018 ; Tian et al, 2020 ), organic pollutants ( Cova T. F. G. G. et al, 2018 ; Filho et al, 2018 ; Liu Q. et al, 2020 ), dyes ( Bezerra et al, 2020 ), and metal ions ( Buvári and Barcza, 1989 ; Ribeiro et al, 2006 ; Prochowicz et al, 2017 ). The versatility of these oligosaccharides makes their application highly attractive in distinct fields such as pharmaceutical (the main one among them all) ( Loftsson and Brewster, 1996 ; Loftsson and Duchene, 2007 ), food technology ( Matencio et al, 2020c ; Gonzalez Pereira et al, 2021 ), textile ( Bezerra et al, 2020 ), wastewater treatment ( Sikder et al, 2019 ; Chodankar et al, 2021 ; Cova et al, 2021 ), detergency ( Schlüter et al, 2020 ) and paper ( Aguado et al, 2019 ).…”