Dr. Kunal Pal is a Professor in the Department of Biotechnology and Medical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India. His major research interests revolve around biomedical signal processing, biomedical equipment design, soft materials, and controlled drug delivery. He has published more than 100 publications in SCI-cited journals of high repute. Prof. Indranil Banerjee did his Ph. D. in Biotechnology (Tissue Engineering) from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India in the year 2011. Presently, is holding the position of an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology and Medical Engineering at National Institute of Technology- Rourkela. He is the Professor-in-Charge of the Bioprocess Laboratory and Biomicrofludics Laboratory. His group is actively involved in understanding the cell physiology in response to biomaterials developed on a length scale (nano to macro). He was a visiting scientist in Maxplanck Institute of Intelligent System, Germany. Dr. Banerjee has authored 35 SCI cited publications in various journals of repute with a total citation of more than 450. He is also serving as industrial consultant. Dr. Preetam Sarkar is an Assistant Professor of Food Sciences at the Department of Food Process Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Odisha, India. He completed his Ph.D. in Food Sciences from Purdue University, USA. The research at Dr. Sarkar’s lab at NIT Rourkela focuses on the development of delivery vehicles such as emulsions, films and coatings, for the protection of bioactive compounds such as antimicrobial agents for food safety applications. He has published 30 articles in SCI journals, 10 book chapters, and co-edited 3 books. He received his PhD in Biofluidic Engineering at Jadavpur University, India in 2016. Currently, he is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Raipur, India. He has more than 20 research publications in peer-reviewed SCI/Scopus journal. He has also edited one book in IGI Global and published 4 book chapters. He served as guest editor to Journal of Healthcare Engineering. He is a reviewer to many journals like Journal of Bionanoscience, Journal of Healthcare Engineering, Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, Journal of Cognitive Neurodynamics, Journal of Scientific Report-Nature, Journal of Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics: An Internal Journal, Acta Biomechanics and Bioengineering, and Journal of Computer Methods in Medicine. He is a visiting scientist to Kazan Federal University, Russia (2017-2020). His primary research area includes Tissue Engineering, Microfluidic system for tissue engineering and point-of-care device development, Organoid development, biomechanics, and Cognitive Neuroscience. Prof. Kim is a Professor in the Department of International Agricultural Technology at Seoul National University. He also serves as a Director of the Institute of Food Industrialization, Institutes of Green Bio Science & Technology, SNU, and holds the post of Adjunct Professor at Audubon Sugar Institute, LSU-AgCenter, St. Gabriel, USA. Prof. Kim has published 192 research papers, and has registered 39 patents in South Korea, and 3 patents in the US. He also serves as the Editor of the ‘Journal of Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering’. Dr. Maji obtained his Ph. D. in Materials Science from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India in 2010. After 1.5 years of postdoctoral research with Professor Dr. Seema Agarwal and Professor Dr. Andreas Greiner at Philipps University Marburg (Germany), he moved to Ghent University (Belgium) for his second postdoctoral training with Professor Richard Hoogenboom. From July 2017, he was appointed as Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemistry, SRM Institute of Science and Technology (SRMIST), Chennai, India. He has authored more than 40 SCI cited publications in various journals of repute and book chapters. He is recipient of prestigious Alexander von Humboldt fellowship of Germany (2010) and FWO Pegasus Marie Curie Fellowship of Belgium (2012).

• Part I: Introduction1. Introduction to polysaccharides2. Bioactivity of the polysaccharides3. Chemical modifications of polysaccharidesPart II: Food applications4. Protein separation and purification5. Edible films6. Oil entrapped films7. Gels8. Nanocomposites9. Nutraceutical delivery systemsPart III: Medical applications10. Tissue engineering11. Anticoagulation12. Drug delivery systems13. Antitumor activity of polysaccharides14. Polysaccharides for osteoarthritis therapy15. Polysaccharides for ocular disorder therapy16. Environment-responsive polysaccharides17. Antimicrobial polysaccharides18. Immobilization of probiotics19. Immobilization of enzymes20. Wound dressings21. BiosensorsPart IV: Environmental applications22. Marine applications23. Electrochemical biosensors24. Immobilization of microbial cells25. Effluent treatment using polysaccharides26. Biodiesel production27. Reinforcing agents in green composites28. Environment-responsive polysaccharides