Recent advances in carbohydrate-based gelators
Rajdeep Tyagi, Kavita Singh, Nitin Srivastava, Ram Sagar
Abstract
This review presented an overview of carbohydrate-based (Glu, Gal, GlcNAc, Rib, Ara) gelators as new materials and their potential applications in various emerging fields such as drug delivery, environmental remediation, antibacterial agents, tissue engineering, thixotropy and wound healing etc .
Topics & Concepts
ThixotropyDrug deliveryCarbohydrateTissue engineeringBiochemical engineeringNanotechnologyChemistryBiotechnologyBiomedical engineeringEngineeringMaterials scienceOrganic chemistryBiologyChemical engineeringSupramolecular Self-Assembly in MaterialsGlycosylation and Glycoproteins ResearchLipid Membrane Structure and Behavior