Microwave Assisted Extraction of Raw Alginate as a Sustainable and Cost-Effective Method to Treat Beach-Accumulated Sargassum Algae

A Nesic, MV De Bonis, G Dal Poggetto, G Ruocco… - Polymers, 2023 - mdpi.com
This paper highlights the potential of Sargassum algae, recovered from raw beach seaweed
wastes, as a valid source of valuable sodium alginate. Alginate is a biodegradable, highly …

Rapid and High-Yield Recovery of Sodium Alginate from Undaria pinnatifida via Microwave-Assisted Extraction

HB Nam, KH Lee, HY Yoo, C Park, JM Lim, JH Lee - Processes, 2024 - mdpi.com
Alginate, a promising biopolymer in the food, biomedical, pharmaceutical, and electronic
materials industries, is characterized by its biodegradability, biocompatibility, low toxicity …

Characterization of native alginates of common alginophytes from the red sea coast of Sudan

N Osman, T Suliman, K Osman - International Journal of Secondary …, 2020 - dergipark.org.tr
The objective of this investigation was to investigate the content, viscosity, and major
functional groups of the native alginates extracted from 4 alginophytes collected from the …

Influence of initial copper concentration, pH, and cross-linked alginate-chitosan and alginate-chitosan-Aspergillus australensis composite beads on the adsorption …

FA Dávila-Parra… - Revista Mexicana …, 2022 - investigadores.unison.mx
Copper (Cu) is a toxic heavy metal whose concentration must be reduced to values under
the environmental standard before discharges can be released into the environment. Due to …

Alginates: current uses and future perspective

A Ravi, S Vijayanand, G Ramya… - … : applications in the …, 2019 - books.google.com
Exopolysaccharides of marine origin have been found to be used extensively in various
fields, and their demand is continuously increasing due to their cheap extraction process …

Natural Dispersing Agent from Korean Seaweed Extract to Enhance the Safeness and UV Protection Properties of Inorganic Sunscreen Based on TiO2 Nanoparticles

P Sinaga, SH Bae - 한국재료학회지, 2024 - db.koreascholar.com
Nanoparticles are commonly used to avoid the opaque white color of TiO2 based
sunscreen. However, a dispersing agent is typically required because of the tendency of the …