Alginates

Md Saquib Hasnain, PhD, has over six years of research experience in the field of drug delivery and pharmaceutical formulation analyses, especially in systematic development and characterization of diverse nanostructured drug delivery systems, controlled release drug delivery systems, bioenhanced drug delivery systems, nanomaterials and nanocomposites employing Quality by Design approaches as well as development and characterization of polymeric composites, formulation characterization using FTIR, DSC, PXRD, SEM, TEM, HPLC, LC-MS, and many more. He has authored many publications in various journals and book chapters, and has one Indian patent application to his credit. He has also participated and presented his research work at conferences in India and abroad. He is a member of several scientific societies, including the Royal Society of Chemistry, the International Association of Environmental and Analytical Chemistry, and the Swiss Chemical Society.Amit Kumar Nayak, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the Seemanta Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Odisha, India. He has over ten years of research experience in the field of pharmaceutics, especially in the development and characterization of polymeric composites, hydrogels, novel and nanostructured drug delivery systems, formulation characterization using FTIR, DSC, PXRD, SEM, TEM, and HPLC. He has authored over 120 publications in various journals and has many book chapters to his credit. He has been a permanent reviewer of many international journals and has participated and presented his research work at several conferences in India. He is a life member of the Association of Pharmaceutical Teachers of India.

• 1. Alginates: Source, Chemistry, and Properties 2. Recent Advances of Alginates as Material for Biomedical Applications 3. Alginates: Hydrogels, their Chemistry, and Applications 4. Alginate-Based Hydrogels: Synthesis, Characterization, and Biomedical Application 5. Chemically Modified Alginates for Advanced Biomedical Applications 6. Bionanocomposites of Alginates, their Chemistry, and Applications 7. Alginate and its Applications in Tissue Engineering 8. Alginate-Based Scaffolds in Bone Tissue Engineering Applications 9. Alginate Properties, Pharmaceutical and Tissue Engineering Applications 10. Alginate: Drug Delivery and Application 11. Chemical and Physical Modifications of Alginate to Improve their use as Carriers in Delivery Systems 12. Updates on Alginate-Based Interpenetrating Polymer Networks for Sustained Drug Release 13. Alginate Nanoparticles 14. Alginate-Based Nanocarriers in Modern Therapeutics 15. Alginate-Based Composites in Drug Delivery Applications 16. Hydroxyapatite-Alginate Composites in Drug Delivery 17. Alginate-Based Gastrointestinal Tract Drug Delivery Systems 18. Alginate Hydrogels as a Colon-Targeted Drug Delivery System 19. Alginate Carriers for Treatment of Ocular Diseases 20. Alginate Carriers for Bioactive Substances: Herbal Natural Compounds and Nucleic Acid Materials