Recent Advances in Polysaccharides and Their Derivatives for Wastewater Treatment and Drug Delivery Applications
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Water Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2023) | Viewed by 343
Special Issue Editors
Interests: energy storage devices; sensors; MOFs; electrospinning; electrolytes; hydrogels; water treatment
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Interests: multifunctional polysaccharides; hydrogels; nanocomposites; grafted polysaccharides; wastewater treatment; nanoparticles; mucoadhesive polysaccharides; transmucosal drug delivery
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Polysaccharides are considered the most essential natural polymers which have gained remarkable attention for various applications, particularly in wastewater treatment and drug delivery fields. Improving the drinking water quality is a crucial topic for global governments and industrial and social sectors. Water is contaminated with various pollution sources including heavy metal ions, organic pollutants (such as synthetic dyes, pesticides, and residual antibiotics), and pathogens that threaten human health and ecosystems. On the other hand, drug delivery systems have fascinated interest in biomedical and pharmaceutical applications in recent years to deliver the therapeutic agents to the target site through systemic circulation to eliminate overdosing drugs and increased patient compliance. Owing to the outstanding physicochemical properties of polysaccharides such as their abundance in nature, low-cost processing, biocompatibility, biodegradability, non-toxicity, water solubility, and bioactivity, they play an important role in the development of high-efficient adsorbents as pollutants’ removal and targeted vesicle for various therapeutic drugs.
The main goal of this Special Issue “Recent advances in polysaccharides and their derivatives for wastewater treatment and drug delivery applications” is to highlight new research articles, mini-review, review, and communications on all aspects of the synthesis and performance of modified polysaccharides for water remediation and drug delivery applications.
Therefore, in this Special Issue we have planned to draw the attention of the audience to the following aspects:
- Polysaccharides and their derivatives for wastewater treatment;
- 2D layered nanomaterials-polysaccharides based adsorbents;
- Polysaccharides @ metal oxide nanocomposites for the removal of toxic pollutants;
- Hydrogel and nanoparticles-based polysaccharides;
- Polysaccharides nanocomposite for drug delivery;
- Mucoadhesive polysaccharides for transmucosal drug delivery.
Dr. Emad S. Goda
Dr. Mahmoud H. Abu Elella
Guest Editors
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