The Realm of Biopolymers and Their Usage: An Overview (original) (raw)

Biopolymers: A comprehensive review

Open Access Research Journal of Science and Technology, 2022

Biopolymers are compounds prepared by using various living organisms, including plants. These are composed of repeated units of the same or similar structure (monomers) linked together. Rubber, starch, cellulose, proteins and DNA, RNA, chitin, and peptides are some of the examples of natural biopolymers. Biopolymers are a diverse and remarkably versatile class of materials that are either produced by biological systems or synthesize from biological sources. Biopolymers are used in pharmaceutical industry and also in food industry.Naturally derived polymers are also used for conditioning benefits in hair and skin care. Biopolymers have various applications in medicine, food, packaging, and petroleum industries. This review article is focused on various aspects of biopolymers with a special emphasis on role of biopolymers in green nanotechnology and agriculture.

Usage Of Biopolymers In Medical Applications

Biological materials like wool, leather, silk, and cellulose are traditional commodity polymers. Currently, modern biotechnological methods such as recombinant, bacterial fermentation, and advancing genetic engineering, nanotechnology provide that new specific required properties are given to the natural polymers and create the usage potential for uncommon biopolymers and their derivatives and blends. Present researchs on medical applications focused on using biopolymers such as particularly PLA, PGA, chitin, chitosan, hyaluronan and their derivates, blends. 2. CLASSIFICATION OF BIOPOLYMER Biopolymers can be derived from microbial systems, extracted from higher organisms such as plants, or synthesized chemically from basic biological building. Biopolymers are being developed for use as medical materials, packaging, cosmetics, food additives, clothing fabrics, water treatment chemicals, industrial plastics, absorbents, biosensors, and even data storage elements. The classification of biopolymers is given Table 1.

Biopolymer: A Sustainable Material for Food and Medical Applications

Polymers, 2022

Biopolymers are a leading class of functional material suitable for high-value applications and are of great interest to researchers and professionals across various disciplines. Interdisciplinary research is important to understand the basic and applied aspects of biopolymers to address several complex problems associated with good health and well-being. To reduce the environmental impact and dependence on fossil fuels, a lot of effort has gone into replacing synthetic polymers with biodegradable materials, especially those derived from natural resources. In this regard, many types of natural or biopolymers have been developed to meet the needs of ever-expanding applications. These biopolymers are currently used in food applications and are expanding their use in the pharmaceutical and medical industries due to their unique properties. This review focuses on the various uses of biopolymers in the food and medical industry and provides a future outlook for the biopolymer industry.

Recent Advancement of Biopolymers and Their Potential Biomedical Applications

Recently, the advantages of biopolymers over conventional plastic polymers are unprecedented, provided that they are used in situations in which they raise the functionality and generate extra benefits for human life. Therefore, biopolymers have received much attention because they play an important place in day-today life for their specific tunable characteristics, making them attractive in a wide range of applications. Biopolymers can produce materials with tunable properties such as biodegradability, biocompatibility, renewability, inexpensiveness, availability, which are critically important for designing materials for use in biomedical applications. In addition to these properties, smart biopolymers could be prepared by changing the polymer components, which would create more target oriented applications. Therefore, this review interprets how biopolymers and their various forms can be potentially used in biomedical applications, including drug delivery, infections, tissue engineering, wound healings, and other as wells. Special emphasis will be provided on the applications of biopolymers in the field of drug delivery, tissue engineering, infections, and wound healing, which indicate the advancement and employment of the various biopolymers in recent biomedical applications.

Biotechnology in Biopolymers: Developments, Applications and Challenging Areas

This comprehensive book provides up-to-date information on the developments in the field of biopolymers. Close attention has been paid to include all the important aspects that are necessary to understand the field. The book introduces the reader with the progress in the field, followed by outlining its applications in different areas. Different methods and techniques of synthesis and characterization are detailed as individual chapters. Various mode and mechanism of degradation of materials will be discussed. There is a dedicated chapter on industrially available biopolymers and their applications and well as a chapter detailing the ongoing research, current trends and future challenges. Unlike other books, this book consists of information that is useful for students who are interested in biotech and polymer research. Each chapter will explain the science and technology from the inception to advance state of the art available to date. This book will also be useful for the researcher involved in the high-tech research as it will provide them the up-to-date information available in this field.

Biopolymer: A Novel Bioexcipient

2021

Polymers are the key material in design of drug delivery systems. These have been shown as the spine for drug development process. These accept an essential part in rising of novel drug delivery systems to crush different intricacies in drug delivery. These are used for controlling the appearance of the drug in needed manner. The hydrophilic and lipophilic polymers are the most ideal choice for getting the ideal conveyance in controlled, manner at the target sites. Isolated of this, these fabricated and semisynthetic polymers are made by different chemical reactions and purification measures. Since these are prepared by different unit operations which are costly. By and by days different investigates are being examined for avoiding the characteristic, physiological and reasonable issues related with the synthetic and semisynthetic polymers. So an alternative rather than synthetic and semisynthetic polymers are being investigated having interest, probability, and any leftover benefit...

Biopolymers; Definition, Classification and Applications

Egyptian Journal of Chemistry, 2019

D URING recent years significant advances have been made in using and development of biodegradable polymeric materials for life applications. Degradable polymeric biomaterials are preferred because these materials have specific physical, chemical, biological, biomechanical and degradation properties. Wide ranges of natural or synthetic biopolymers capable of undergoing degradation hydrolytically or enzymatically are being investigated for many applications. This review aimed to provide an overview for the importance of biomaterials, produced or degraded naturally, classification and applications.

Biopolymers in Medical Applications

The future of fiber technology for medical application depends largely on the future needs of our civilization. The use of new polymers for medical textile application has increased rapidly over the past quarter of century. The polymers are excellent candidates for applications in the medical field because of their versatility, biocompatibility, bio absorbability and absence of cytotoxicity. New polymer encompasses practically every facet of modern civilization. In fact along with other medical hi-technology streams like bio-technology, this technology will also be one of the major propellants for developments. Today emerging polymer includes new capability polymers such as alginate, chitin/chitosan, collagen, hydro gels, hydrocolloids, superabsorbent polymers and such others.