Food, Medical, and Environmental Applications of Polysaccharides

Kunal Pal, Indranil Banerjee, Preetam Sarkar, Arindam Bit, Doman Kim, Arfat Anis, Samarendra Maji
Elsevier S&T
756 pages
ISBN: 978-0128192399
December 2020

The book begins with an introductory section covering sources, chemistry, architectures, bioactivity, and chemical modifications of polysaccharides. Subsequent parts of the book are organized by field, with chapters focusing the use of polysaccharides for state-of-the-art applications across food, medicine, and the environment. This is an extremely valuable book for researchers, scientists, and advanced students in biopolymers, polymer science, polymer chemistry, biomaterials, materials science, biotechnology, biomedical engineering, cosmetics, medicine, food science, and environmental science.