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Frontispiece: Chemical Functionalization of Polysaccharides—Towards Biocompatible Hydrogels for Biomedical Applications
Author(s) -
Kirschning Andreas,
Dibbert Nick,
Dräger Gerald
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201880662
Subject(s) - pullulan , self healing hydrogels , polysaccharide , biocompatible material , hyaluronic acid , dextran , surface modification , tissue engineering , chemistry , scaffold , polymer science , chemical modification , nanotechnology , materials science , polymer chemistry , organic chemistry , biomedical engineering , engineering , biology , genetics
Functionalized polysaccharides have emerged as versatile scaffold materials for the formation of hydrogels used in biomedical applications and tissue engineering. Important to such polysaccharides‐based materials are recent developments in synthetic chemistry to specifically functionalizing polysaccharides such as hyaluronic acid, alginate, dextran or pullulan. For more details, see the Minireview by A. Kirschning, G. Dräger and N. Dibbert on page 1231 ff.