Hydrogels from Polysaccharides for Biomedical Applications

Integration of (Hemi)-Cellulosic Biofuels Technologies with Chemical Pulp Production

“…Both GGMs from softwoods and GXs from hardwoods have been evaluated for barrier film production [124,[147][148][149][150] and hydrogels [151]. Both GGMs from softwoods and GXs from hardwoods have been evaluated for barrier film production [124,[147][148][149][150] and hydrogels [151].…”

The Potential of Xylans as Biomaterial Resources

“…Recent research in this field has been directed toward development of films, hydrogels, fibers, and biocomposites for food and nonfood applications (Lloyd et al, 1998;Belyaev, 2000;Tharanathan, 2003;Coviello et al, 2007;Lindblad et al, 2007). Recent research in this field has been directed toward development of films, hydrogels, fibers, and biocomposites for food and nonfood applications (Lloyd et al, 1998;Belyaev, 2000;Tharanathan, 2003;Coviello et al, 2007;Lindblad et al, 2007).…”

Effect of Cellulose Nanocrystals Content and pH on Swelling Behaviour of Gelatin Based Hydrogel

“…The physical stimuli include temperature (Jagadeeshbabu et al 2011;Zhang et al 2009), electric fields ( Li et al 2004;Murdan 2003), light (Qiu & Park 2012), pressure (Qiu & Park 2012) and magnetic fields (Liu et al 2006;Paulino et al 2012), while the chemical stimuli include pH ( Frutos et al 2010;Karlsson & Gatenholm 1999) and ions (Rodrı́guez et al 2003). A number of studies had focused to broaden the applications of these kind of hydrogel in various field (Lindblad et al 2007;Wu et al 2008), including controlled drug delivery , tissue engineering (Hou et al 2010), gene transfection (Gojgini et al 2011) and sensors (Frisk et al 2007).…”