In this Review, we aim to provide an updated summary of the research related to hollow
micro-and nanostructures, covering both their synthesis and their applications. After a brief …

Interest in polymer-based biomaterials such as chitosan and its modifications and also the
methods of their application in various fields of science is uninterruptedly growing. Owing to …

Over the last few decades there has been a huge interest in nanostructured functional
materials and assembly techniques for preparing functional molecular assemblies with …

Natural polysaccharides from different sources have long been studied and widely used in
different areas, such as food and feed, medicine and pharmaceutics, and in papermaking. In …

The attention to polymer-based biomaterials, for instance, chitosan and its derivatives, as
well as the techniques for using them in numerous scientific domains, is continuously rising …

Chitosan is a marine-origin polysaccharide obtained from the deacetylation of chitin, the
main component of crustaceans' exoskeleton, and the second most abundant in nature …

The present review article intends to direct attention to the technological advances made
since 2009 in the area of genipin-crosslinked chitosan (GEN-chitosan) hydrogels. After a …

Many polymers have been investigated with respect to their use in skin tissue engineering.
However, directly comparable data on the role played by different polymers in assisting skin …

Layer-by-layer (LbL) assembly has attracted much interest because of its ability to provide
nanoscale control over film characteristics and because of a wide choice of available …

Covalent layer-by-layer (LbL) assembly is a powerful method used to construct functional
ultrathin films that enables nanoscopic structural precision, componential diversity, and …