Collagen mineralization is a biological process in many skeletal elements in the animal
kingdom. Examples of these collagen‐based skeletons are the siliceous spicules of glass …

Marine resources have tremendous potential for developing high-value biomaterials. The
last decade has seen an increasing number of biomaterials that originate from marine …

Collagenous biopolymers can be analyzed using physic-chemical, densitometric, and
spectroscopic analysis to obtain their main characteristics, aiming at their biotechnological …

The growing demand for new, sophisticated, multifunctional materials has brought natural
structural composites into focus, since they underwent a substantial optimization during long …

The world fisheries resources have exceeded 160 million tons in recent years. However,
every year a considerable amount of total catch is discarded as by-catch or as processing …

In the development of technology, a source of inspiration for mankind is the nature.
Naturally, many biological surfaces having unique micro–nanostructures, such as lotus …

Collagen is one of the most widely used biomaterials, not only due its biocompatibility,
biodegradability and weak antigenic potential, but also due to its role in the structure and …

Scaling up commercial hydrogen production by water electrolysis requires efficient oxygen
evolution reaction (OER) electrodes that can deliver large current densities (more than 500 …

The extraction and purification of collagen are of great interest due to its biological function
and medicinal applications. Although marine invertebrates are abundant in the animal …

Marine demosponges of the Verongiida order are considered a gold-mine for bioinspired
materials science and marine pharmacology. The aim of this work was to simultaneously …