The application of hydrocolloid gel particles is potentially useful in food, chemical, and
pharmaceutical industries. Alginate gel particles are one of the more commonly used …

Chitosan, as a unique positively charged polysaccharide, has been one of the most popular
biopolymers for development of drug delivery systems for various applications, due to its …

Tailor-made microparticles and nanoparticles are finding increasing use in food products to
alter their nutritional characteristics, flavor profile, appearance, rheology, stability, and …

In recent years, reduced graphene oxide (rGO) has attracted wide attention from researchers
due to its excellent physicochemical properties and rich surface chemistry. Inspired by the …

This article reviews available methods for the formation of alginate nano-aggregates,
nanocapsules and nanospheres. Primarily, alginate nanoparticles are being prepared by …

Hydrogels are three-dimensional, hydrophilic, polymeric networks, with chemical or physical
cross-links, capable of imbibing large amounts of water or biological fluids. Among the …

Alginate is a biopolymer that has exceptional gelling properties, which allow easy gel
formation under safe and mild conditions. Consequently, it is often used to encapsulate a …

Polysaccharides have attracted more and more attentions and been recognized to be the
most promising materials in recent years because of their outstanding merits such as easily …

Insulin-loaded nanoparticles were prepared by ionotropic pre-gelation of alginate with
calcium chloride followed by complexation between alginate and chitosan. The influence of …

Over the last few years, significant research has been conducted in the construction of
artificial bone scaffolds. In the present study, different types of polymer scaffolds, such as …