alginate-based hydrogels and fibres for wound dressi...Table 19.3 Alginate-based adsorbents for ion removal from water.16 Chapter 20Table 20.1 Typical examples of marine microorganisms that produce polysaccharide...
17 Chapter 22Table 22.1 Different types of cancers and polysaccharides studies for their anti...
18 Chapter 23Table 23.1 Characteristics of polysaccharide-based materials extracted from plan...Table 23.2 Characteristics of polysaccharide-based materials synthesized by micr...
19 Chapter 26Table 26.1 Examples of polysaccharides [4].Table 26.2 Functions of different polysaccharides.Table 26.3 Synthesis approaches and properties of different inorganic fillers [2...
20 Chapter 28Table 28.1 Example of polysaccharides derivatives.Table 28.2 List of patents for drug delivery, wound dressing and tissue engineer...Table 28.3 List of patents for cosmetic application.
21 Chapter 32Table 32.1 Polysaccharides from different natural sources.Table 32.2 The naturally occurring herbal polysaccharides.Table 32.3 Animal derived polysaccharides.Table 32.4 Microbial derived polysaccharides.Table 32.5 List of several homoglycans from different sources.Table 32.6 Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) and other heteroglycans.Table 32.7 List of mucopolysaccharidoses.
List of Illustrations
1 Chapter 1Figure 1.1 Chemical structure of mucopolysaccharide acemannan.
2 Chapter 2Figure 2.1 The illustration depicts the cell walls of plant cell. The plant cell...Figure 2.2 Figure illustrates different polysaccharides molecules in the algal c...Figure 2.3 Describes the structural polysaccharides of fungal cell wall, which i...Figure 2.4 The given illustration depicts the bacterial cell wall that composed ...
3 Chapter 4Figure 4.1 Chemical structure of agarose and agaropectin.Figure 4.2 Chemical structure of carrageenan.Figure 4.3 G blocks, M blocks and alternating blocks of alginate.Figure 4.4 Isolation and extraction of pathways of alginate.Figure 4.5 Fucoidan structure.Figure 4.6 Laminaran structure with (a) d-mannitol and (b) d-glucose residues.Figure 4.7 Laminaran extraction procedure.
4 Chapter 5Figure 5.1 Chemical structure of agarobiose (the fundamental repeating unit of a...Figure 5.2 Chemical construct of different agarose units [20].
5 Chapter 8Figure 8.1 The Nador or Machica lagoon in Morocco [18].Figure 8.2 Different areas of application of green algae.Figure 8.3 Caulerpa prolifera of Nador Lagoon.Figure 8.4 The principal seaweeds used to production of sulfated polysaccharides...Figure 8.5 The main skeleton of Codium’s sulfated galactans.Figure 8.6 Ulva rigida (A), Enteromorpha intestinalis (B) of Nador Lagoon.Figure 8.7 Structure of the principal disaccharides in ulvan isolated from Ulva ...Figure 8.8 Codium species in Nador lagoon, (A) Codium tomentosum, (B) Codium bur...Figure 8.9 Structures of arabinans (A) and (B) arabinogalactans [54].Figure 8.10 The principal sulfated mannans isolated from Codium species. (a) sim...
6 Chapter 9Figure 9.1 Galactomannan and glucomannan chemical structures.Figure 9.2 The cultivated salep orchids at field condition and their tubers.
7 Chapter 10Figure 10.1 The gum tears of exudate tree gums, (a) arabic, (b) karaya, (c) kond...Figure 10.2 The utilization of exudate tree gums in food (a) ice cream, (b) sher...Figure 10.3 (a) The UV–visible absorption spectra of exudate tree gum synthesize...Figure 10.4 The transmission electron microscopy (TEM) images of (a) silver nano...Figure 10.5 (a) The bactericidal activity of gum ghatti synthesized silver nanop...Figure 10.6 The UV–vis absorption spectra indicating the sodium borohydride redu...Figure 10.7 The antioxidant activity of gum synthesized nanoparticles (NP) in te...Figure 10.8 The gum tear formation and gummosis observed in minor exudate gum pr...
8 Chapter 11Figure 11.1 Main applications fields of cellulose, cellulose-derivatives and nan...
9 Chapter 12Figure 12.1 Structure of (a) amylose and (b) amylopectin units in starch. Reprod...Figure 12.2 Comparison of unit cells and helix packing in (a) A-type and (b) B-t...Figure 12.3 Acid hydrolysis of native starch showing the breakdown of constituen...Figure 12.4 Processes that occur during gelatinization and retrogradation. (a) u...Figure 12.5 Schematic representation of the melting process of a semicrystalline...Figure 12.6 Microcapsule-based self-healing model for starch, (a) Schematic of t...Figure 12.7 (a) The process for the superhydrophobic paper to be soaked into wat...Figure 12.8 The mechanism of RL (random lasing) based on spontaneously formed st...
10 Chapter 13Figure 13.1 Semi-crystalline polymers’ structure formation from sub‐nanometric t...Figure 13.2 Schematic illustration of hierarchical structure of wood from tree t...Figure 13.3 Fiber diffraction patterns for anhydrous chitosan; the location of e...Figure 13.4 Crystal structure of anhydrous chitosan with different projection [9...Figure 13.5 Hierarchical structure of starch: from granules to chemical structur...
11 Chapter 14Figure 14.1 The basic principles of tissue engineering (Adapted with the kind pe...Figure 14.2 The different types of scaffold fabrication methods (Modified image ...Figure 14.3 The molecular structure of alginate.Figure 14.4 The molecular structure of chitosan.Figure 14.5 Three-dimensional tomographic images of the scaffolds using direct v...Figure 14.6 The molecular structure of cellulose.Figure 14.7 (a) 3D printed grids with Ink8020 after crosslinking; (b) The deform...Figure 14.8 The molecular structure of dextran.Figure 14.9 The molecular structure of starch.Figure 14.10 The molecular structure of xanthan gum.Figure 14.11 The molecular formula of hyaluronic acid.Figure 14.12 The molecular structure of heparin.Figure 14.13 The molecular structure of chondroitin sulfate.
12 Chapter 15Scheme 15.1 Structure of few monomer units present in polysaccharides.Figure 15.1 (a) The cellulose chain in a flat ribbon arrangement with hydrogen b...Figure 15.2 The repeated unit (building block) present in amylose.Figure 15.3 The cellulose derivatives, R = CH3 or H represents methyl cellulose;...Figure 15.4 (a) Amylopectin and (b) amylose in starch.Scheme 15.2 The polysaccharide dissolution.
13 Chapter 16Figure 16.1 Carbon aerogel produced from NCC [33]. Reproduced according to the p...Figure 16.2 Hierarchical structure of cellulose [36]. Reproduced according to th...Figure 16.3 The repeated unit in cellulose comparing with c-axis length (a), the...Figure 16.4 SEM images of hydrolized cellulose [43]: higher (a) and lower (b) re...Figure 16.5 SEM images of BC: (a) [60], (b) [61]. The figures are reproduced acc...Figure 16.6 SEM images of carbonized (a [43], b [67]) NCC. The figures are repro...Figure 16.7 TEM image of carbogel produced from NCC [33]. Ordered macromolecules...Figure 16.8 SEM (a) and TEM (b) images of the NCC-based composites produced via ...Figure 16.9 Conversion of wood cellulose: from the plant cellulose to supercapac...Figure 16.10 SEM images of BC after carbonization (a) followed by activation (b)...Figure 16.11 Chitosan (a) and sodium alginate (b).Figure 16.12 Amilose (a) and aminopectine (b).Figure 16.13 Low (a) and high (b) resolution TEM images of graphene sponges prod...Figure 16.14 Synthesis of C-QDs from cyclodextrine and their use for Ag+ detecti...Figure 16.15 SEM images of the composite containing silica, carbonized carboxyme...
14 Chapter 17Figure 17.1 The optimized structures of the most important polysaccharides.Figure 17.2 Variation of shear viscosity on concentration at two distinct shear ...Figure 17.3 Morphology resulted after shearing the HPC matrix in lyotropic phase...
15 Chapter 18Figure 18.1 A schematic representation of various sources of natural gums. Repri...Figure 18.2 Classification of natural gums based on different entities.Figure 18.3 Multifunctional properties of natural gum-based cues for pharmaceuti...Figure 18.4 Dental implants (1) Periodontal disease in bone, (2) extraction of t...
16 Chapter 19Figure 19.1 Application and functional role of Algs.
17 Chapter 23Figure 23.1 Polysaccharide-based materials in food packaging system.
18 Chapter 25Figure 25.1 Structure of chitosan.Scheme 25.1 Preparation
