Polysaccharides are the most abundant naturally available carbohydrate polymers;
composed of monosaccharide units covalently connected together. Chitosan is the most …

Hydrogels are a kind of three dimensional polymeric network system which has a significant
amount of water imbibing capacity despite being soluble in it. Because of the potential …

There has been a significant increase in demand for biomaterials over the last decades.
According to this fact, the design and development of more efficient and sophisticated …

Carrageenan is a natural polysaccharide extracted from edible red seaweeds of
Rhodophycea class. It has been used as a viscosity increasing or gelling agent for …

Injectable hydrogels with biodegradability have in situ formability which in vitro/in vivo allows
an effective and homogeneous encapsulation of drugs/cells, and convenient in vivo surgical …

Hydrogels are the most iconic class of soft materials, and since their first report in the
literature, they have attracted the attention of uncountable researchers. Over the past two …

Cell culturing, whether for tissue engineering or cell biology studies, always involves placing
cells in a non‐natural environment and no material currently exist that can mimic the entire …

Chitosan is non-toxic, biocompatible and biodegradable polysaccharide composed of
glucosamine and derived by deacetylation of chitin. Chitosan thermosensitive hydrogel has …

Chitosan is a nontoxic, biodegradable, and biocompatible polysaccharide of β (1-4)-linked d-
glucosamine and N-acetyl-d-glucosamine. This derivative of natural chitin presents …

Hydrogels are crosslinked polymer networks that can absorb a huge amount of water. The
present review aims to give an overview of hydrogels based on starch and their various …