*Edited by Irem Deniz, Esra Imamoglu and Tugba Keskin-Gundogdu*

Alginates are biodegradable, biocompatible, renewable, and natural polysaccharides in brown marine algae. *Properties and Applications of Alginates* provides an overview of the state of the art of chemical and material properties of alginates and biomedical and nanotechnology mechanisms underlying alginate biosynthesis. It discusses alginatebased materials' fundamentals that combine research and technological advances with current limitations. Moreover, novel technologies using alginate composites are introduced, and as well as the latest developments in alginate-based technologies were reviewed. It also examines potential uses of alginates in immobilized biocatalysts, nanoparticle synthesis, wastewater treatment, heavy metal removal, agriculture, pharmaceuticals, and biomedicine.

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Properties and Applications of Alginates

Properties and Applications

of Alginates

*Edited by Irem Deniz, Esra Imamoglu* 

*and Tugba Keskin-Gundogdu*