Water-soluble fluorescent colloidal quantum dots (QDs) have been widely used in some biological and biomedical fields, so the interaction of QDs with biomolecules recently attracts increasing attention. In this paper, CdTe quantum dots modified by a natural biopolymer based on polyacrylamide (PAAm) grafted onto sodium alginate (Alg-g-PAAm) were synthesized in an aqueous solution. Then, the bind...

Biopolymers are promising materials in the delivery of protein drugs due to their compatibility, degradation behavior, and nontoxic nature on administration. On suitable chemical modification, these polymers can provide better materials for drug delivery systems. Nanostructured drug carriers allow the delivery of not only small-molecule drugs but also of nucleic acids and proteins. The use of b...

The ability to silence the expression of specific genes at a particular location of the body would provide a powerful new therapeutic tool for treatment of diseases such as cancer or for use in regenerative medicine. RNA interference (RNAi) is a gene silencing mechanism where specific mRNA molecules that are complementary to short interfering RNA (siRNA) are degraded, thus inhibiting gene expre...

The use of natural polymers in the drug delivery continues to be an area of intensive research despite the advent of several new synthetic polymers. The present study envisages pharmaceutical utility of Assam glutinous rice as natural biopolymeric matrix for microfabricated controlled DDS. Microcarriers were prepared using an industrially feasible ionic gelation method using the blends of propo...

Wastewaters from various process industries, namely food and agricultural, sugar mill, brewery, milk, vegetable fruit, meat fisheries processing industries their wastewater effluents contain nutrients, organic matter, inorganic, heavy metals, suspended solids, pathogens. The discharges of non-treated enter the nearby aquatic ecosystem (e.g., lakes, rivers) are a significant concern due to prese...

In this study, we developed a highly sensitive amperometric biosensor for glucose detection based on glucose oxidase immobilized in a novel carbon nanosphere (CNS)/sodium alginate (SA) composite matrix. This hybrid material combined the advantages of CNS and natural biopolymer SA. This composite film was characterized by scanning electron microscope, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and U...

The passive removal of toxic heavy metals such as Cd(2+), Cu(2+), Zn(2+), Pb(2+), Cr(3+), and Hg(2+) by inexpensive biomaterials, termed biosorption, requires that the substrate displays high metal uptake and selectivity, as well as suitable mechanical properties for applied remediation scenarios. In recent years, many low-cost sorbents have been investigated, but the brown algae have since pro...

Modern society strives for the development of sustainable processes that are aimed at meeting human needs while preserving environment. Membrane technologies satisfy all principles sustainability due to their advantages, such as cost-effectiveness, environmental friendliness, absence additional reagents and ease use compared traditional separation methods. In present work, novel green membranes...

In this article a luminescence fiber optic biosensor for the microdetection of heavy metal toxicity in waters based on the marine bacterium Aliivibrio fischeri (A. fischeri) encapsulated in alginate microspheres is described. Cu(II), Cd(II), Pb(II), Zn(II), Cr(VI), Co(II), Ni(II), Ag(I) and Fe(II) were selected as sample toxic heavy metal ions for evaluation of the performance of this toxicity ...