Department of Biomaterials and Cosmetic Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Gagarin 7 Street, 87-100 Torun, Poland.
WellU sp.z.o.o., Wielkopolska 280, 81-531 Gdynia, Poland.
Mar Drugs. 2023 Jun 8;21(6):353. doi: 10.3390/md21060353.
This review article presents past and current alginate-based materials in each application, showing the widest range of alginate's usage and development in the past and in recent years. The first segment emphasizes the unique characteristics of alginates and their origin. The second segment sets alginates according to their application based on their features and limitations. Alginate is a polysaccharide and generally occurs as water-soluble sodium alginate. It constitutes hydrophilic and anionic polysaccharides originally extracted from natural brown algae and bacteria. Due to its promising properties, such as gelling, moisture retention, and film-forming, it can be used in environmental protection, cosmetics, medicine, tissue engineering, and the food industry. The comparison of publications with alginate-based products in the field of environmental protection, medicine, food, and cosmetics in scientific articles showed that the greatest number was assigned to the environmental field (30,767) and medicine (24,279), whereas fewer publications were available in cosmetic (5692) and food industries (24,334). Data are provided from the Google Scholar database (including abstract, title, and keywords), accessed in May 2023. In this review, various materials based on alginate are described, showing detailed information on modified composites and their possible usage. Alginate's application in water remediation and its significant value are highlighted. In this study, existing knowledge is compared, and this paper concludes with its future prospects.
这篇综述文章介绍了过去和现在的基于海藻酸盐的材料在每种应用中的情况，展示了海藻酸盐在过去和近年来最广泛的用途和发展。第一段强调了海藻酸盐的独特特性及其来源。第二段根据其特性和局限性，根据其应用将海藻酸盐进行分类。海藻酸盐是一种多糖，通常以水溶性的海藻酸钠形式存在。它由最初从天然褐藻和细菌中提取的亲水性和阴离子多糖组成。由于其具有成胶、保水和成膜等有前途的特性，因此可用于环境保护、化妆品、医药、组织工程和食品工业。在科学文章中对基于海藻酸盐的产品在环境保护、医药、食品和化妆品领域的出版物进行比较表明，环境领域（30767 篇）和医学领域（24279 篇）的出版物数量最多，而化妆品（5692 篇）和食品工业（24334 篇）的出版物较少。数据来自 2023 年 5 月访问的 Google Scholar 数据库（包括摘要、标题和关键字）。在这篇综述中，描述了各种基于海藻酸盐的材料，详细介绍了改性复合材料及其可能的用途。强调了海藻酸盐在水修复中的应用及其重要价值。在本研究中，比较了现有的知识，并对其未来前景进行了总结。
