Towards Sustainable Solutions: Recent Advances in Polyphenol-Based Biomaterials
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Products Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2023) | Viewed by 2648
Special Issue Editor
2. FSCN, Surface and Colloid Engineering, Mid Sweden University, SE-851 70 Sundsvall, Sweden
Interests: rheology; biopolymers; biomaterials; colloids; lignocellulose; polyphenol dissolution and extraction
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Natural polyphenols represent a class of polyphenolic compounds extensively present in living species ranging from bacteria and fungi up to plants to animals. These biomolecules play several key roles, such as cytoprotection, iron transport, pigmentation, metal coordination, and signal transmission, among others. Interestingly, natural polyphenols have been reported with remarkable functional properties, such as antibacterial, anticancer, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, anti-metastatic, antiviral, anthelmintic, β-amyloid inhibition, myocardial protection, and immune-regulatory activities. Due to these multipurpose properties, natural polyphenols have been attracting growing interest in diverse areas from food and cosmetics up to pharmaceutics and medicine. This Special Issue intends to cover the most recent fundamental (e.g., extraction, characterization, self-assembly and interactions with other molecules, mechanisms of action) and applied aspects (e.g., strategies to develop and characterize novel engineered natural polyphenol-based nanoparticles, drug delivery systems, films, hydrogels, composites, foams).
Dr. Bruno Medronho
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- natural polyphenols
- extraction and characterization
- biomaterials
- functional properties
