Marine Biomaterials II, 2017
A special issue of Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2017) | Viewed by 9383
Special Issue Editor
Interests: marine biomaterials; biominerals; biocomposites and biomimetics
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Dear Colleagues,
Recent technological and methodological advances in structural biology, genomics, proteomics, biomineralization, bioinspired materials chemistry, biological assays and biomimetics have resulted in the isolation and practical evaluation of diverse biomaterials. These compounds range in structural class from simple linear peptides to complex biopolymers, bioadhesives, bioelastomers and hierarchically structured biocomposites. There is no doubt that the diversity of biological materials of marine origin is almost equivalent to marine biodiversity, including very special aquatic niches such as in the Arctic and Antarctic seas, or abyssal and hadal zones. According to the generalized classification of biological materials of marine origin, we have chosen the following topics to be covered in the Special Issue:
- Biomineralized structures and biocomposites of invertebrates origin (skeletal networks, macro- and microscleres, spicules, spines, bristles, cell walls, cyst walls, loricae, etc.)
- Biomineralized structures and biocomposites of vertebrates origin (bones of whales; fish scales, spines, bones and otoliths; calculi and stones)
- Non-mineralized structures (bioelastomers such as abductin; cartilage; bioadhesives e.g., byssus and related DOPA-based polymers; biocements and glues)
- Macromolecular biopolymers (marine polysaccharides of algal origin; chitin, chitosan; conchiolin (periostracum), collagens, hagfish keratins, resilin, gorgonin, spongin, antipathin; marine amphipod silk)
- Self-made biological materials (tubular structures of marine invertebrates like some protists, foraminifera or worms which are made by co-agglutination of external mineral debris, sand grains or other particles)
Prof. Dr. Hermann Ehrlich
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- biominerals
- biocomposites
- biomimetics
- biomaterial
- biosilica
- bioelastomers
- calcification
- chitin /chitosan
- collagen
- corals
- marine invertebrates
- spicule
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