Although thermoplastic materials are mostly derived from petro-chemicals, it would be highly desirable, from a sustainability perspective, to produce them instead from renewable biopolymers. Unfortunately, biopolymers exhibiting thermoplastic behaviour and which preserve their mechanical properties post processing are essentially non-existent. The robust sucker ring teeth (SRT) from squid and c...

The average life span of knee prosthesis used in Total Knee Replacement (TKR) is approximately 10 to 15 years. Literature indicates that the reasons for implant failures include wear, infection, instability, and stiffness. However, the majority of failures are due to wear and tear of the prosthesis. The most common biopolymer used in TKR  is Ultra High Molecular Weight Polyethylene (UHMWPE). Pr...

Natural polymers are widely known and extensively studied, especially for applications involving biomaterials medical devices. Such a market has high-growth potential, associated with the increase in people's average lifetime crescent concern health prevention by population worldwide. In spite of this, few products within field made from natural manufactured on large scale commercialized. This ...

Diverse array of biopolymers and second metabolites (particularly polyketide natural products) has been manufactured in nature through an enzymatic iterative assembly of simple building blocks. Inspired by this strategy, molecules with inherent modularity can be efficiently synthesized by repeated succession of similar reaction sequences. This privileged strategy has been widely adopted in synt...

Rapid industrialization and modernization have introduced substantial amounts of toxic heavy metals into the aquatic and terrestrial environment which possess a serious threat to the flora and fauna. In recent years, considerable research work has been done and is currently underway on a number of natural biopolymers and their modifications to remove different kinds of heavy metal ions. Chitosa...

We are pleased to present this joint special issue of Macromolecular Bioscience and Advanced Materials Interfaces titled “Biointerfaces Biopolymers”. In the last decades there has been an explosion in material science with revolutionary concepts that merge state-of-the-art chemistry, physics, biology, nanoscience technology. Concurrently, basic research biological materials started shed light n...