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      Biodegradable Polymers

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          Biodegradable materials are used in packaging, agriculture, medicine and other areas. In recent years there has been an increase in interest in biodegradable polymers. Two classes of biodegradable polymers can be distinguished: synthetic or natural polymers. There are polymers produced from feedstocks derived either from petroleum resources (non renewable resources) or from biological resources (renewable resources). In general natural polymers offer fewer advantages than synthetic polymers. The following review presents an overview of the different biodegradable polymers that are currently being used and their properties, as well as new developments in their synthesis and applications.

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          Biodegradable polymers as biomaterials

          Lakshmi Nair, Cato T. Laurencin (2007)
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            Natural-origin polymers as carriers and scaffolds for biomolecules and cell delivery in tissue engineering applications.

            Patrícia B Malafaya, Gabriela Silva, Rui Reis (2007)
            The present paper intends to overview a wide range of natural-origin polymers with special focus on proteins and polysaccharides (the systems more inspired on the extracellular matrix) that are being used in research, or might be potentially useful as carriers systems for active biomolecules or as cell carriers with application in the tissue engineering field targeting several biological tissues. The combination of both applications into a single material has proven to be very challenging though. The paper presents also some examples of commercially available natural-origin polymers with applications in research or in clinical use in several applications. As it is recognized, this class of polymers is being widely used due to their similarities with the extracellular matrix, high chemical versatility, typically good biological performance and inherent cellular interaction and, also very significant, the cell or enzyme-controlled degradability. These biocharacteristics classify the natural-origin polymers as one of the most attractive options to be used in the tissue engineering field and drug delivery applications.
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              Perspectives for chitosan based antimicrobial films in food applications

              P.K. Dutta, Shipra Tripathi, G.K. Mehrotra … (2009)
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                Journal ID (nlm-ta): Materials (Basel)
                Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Materials (Basel)
                Journal ID (publisher-id): materials
                Title: Materials
                Publisher: Molecular Diversity Preservation International
                ISSN (Electronic): 1996-1944
                Publication date (Electronic): 01 April 2009
                Publication date Collection: June 2009
                Volume: 2
                Issue: 2
                Pages: 307-344
                Affiliations
                Groupe de Recherche En Sciences Pour l'Ingénieur (GRESPI), Laboratoire d'Etudes des Matériaux Polymères d'Emballage (LEMPE), Ecole Supérieure d'Ingénieurs en Emballage et Conditionnement (ESIEC), Esplanade Roland Garros - Pôle Henri Farman, BP 1029, 51686 Reims Cedex 2, France; E-Mail: lan.tighzert@ 123456univ-reims.fr
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                [* ]Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: isabelle.vroman@ 123456univ-reims.fr ; Tel. +33-326-913-879
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                Publisher ID: materials-02-00307
                DOI: 10.3390/ma2020307
                PMC ID: 5445709
                SO-VID: b819ff51-8f5f-44cb-8e01-bfff07eb20a5
                Copyright © © 2009 by the authors;
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                licensee Molecular Diversity Preservation International, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open-access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

                History
                Date received : 25 February 2009
                Date revision received : 25 March 2009
                Date accepted : 30 March 2009
                Categories
                Subject: Review

                Keywords: biodegradable polymers,polyesters,polyamides,polyurethanes,biopolymers,biodegradable polymer blends
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                Keywords: biodegradable polymers, polyesters, polyamides, polyurethanes, biopolymers, biodegradable polymer blends

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