Natural gums and their derivatives based hydrogels: in biomedical, environment, agriculture, and food industry
Meenakshi Tanwar, Rajinder K. Gupta, Archna Rani
Critical Reviews in Biotechnology
Abstract
The hydrogels based on natural gums and chemically derivatized natural gums have great interest in pharmaceutical, food, cosmetics, and environmental remediation, due to their: economic viability, sustainability, nontoxicity, biodegradability, and biocompatibility. Since these natural gems are from plants, microorganisms, and seaweeds, they offer a great opportunity to chemically derivatize and modify into novel, innovative biomaterials as scaffolds for tissue engineering and drug delivery. Derivatization improves swelling properties, thereby developing interest in agriculture and separating technologies. This review highlights the work done over the past three and a half decades and the possibility of developing novel materials and technologies in a cost-effective and sustainable manner. This review has compiled various natural gums, their source, chemical composition, and chemically derivatized gums, various methods to synthesize hydrogel, and their applications in biomedical, food and agriculture, textile, cosmetics, water purification, remediation, and separation fields.
Extracted Claims
3 claims extracted from this paper into the knowledge graph
natural gums are from plants, microorganisms, and seaweeds
“Since these natural gems are from plants, microorganisms, and seaweeds, they offer a great opportunity to chemically derivatize and modify into novel, innovative biomaterials as scaffolds for tissue e...”
chemically derivatized natural gums improve swelling properties
“Derivatization improves swelling properties, thereby developing interest in agriculture and separating technologies.”
natural gums have economic viability, sustainability, nontoxicity, biodegradability, and biocompatibility
“The hydrogels based on natural gums and chemically derivatized natural gums have great interest in pharmaceutical, food, cosmetics, and environmental remediation, due to their: economic viability, sus...”