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

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

Chitin is a long-chain polymer of N-acetyl-glucosamine, which is regularly found in the
exoskeleton of arthropods including insects, shellfish and the cell wall of fungi. It has been …

Aquatic invertebrates are a major source of biomaterials and bioactive natural products that
can find applications as pharmaceutics, nutraceutics, cosmetics, antibiotics, antifouling …

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 …

Chitin as one of the fundamental structural biological materials widely occurring in broad
diversity of uni-and multicellular organisms focuses attention of experts in biomedicine …

Skeletal constructs of diverse marine sponges remain to be a sustainable source of
biocompatible porous biopolymer-based 3D scaffolds for tissue engineering and …

Extreme biomimetics is the search for natural sources of engineering inspiration that lead to
solutions that are well outside the human comfort zone (temperature, pH, salinity, pressure …

Integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA) systems integrate the cultivation of species from
different trophic levels. Uneaten feed, solid wastes, and dissolved nutrients are turned into …

Modern scaffolding strategies include two key ways: to produce requested 3D constructs
from corresponding precursors using technological tools, or simply use naturally already pre …