{"title":"Plant Fiber Composites for Biomedical Applications: Advances and Prospective.","authors":"Suraj Kumar, Rishabha Malviya, Prerna Uniyal, Saurabh Srivastava, Sathvik Belagodu Sridhar, Safia Obaidur Rab, Bhupinder Singh","doi":"10.2174/0113892010314833240815113622","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Plant fibers are strong, robust, flexible, versatile, renewable, and sustainable, making them valuable for many applications. Fibers from plants are now utilized in biomedical applications as reinforcements for biological composites to enhance the mechanical characteristics of composite biological materials including rigidity, tensile strength, and endurance. Reinforcement composites with hybrid components were explored in biodevices for prospective utilization in orthopedics, prosthetics, tissue fabrication, and surgical dressings. This review presents an overview of plant fibers, including their characteristics, influencing variables, and numerous applications. The text explores several methods for creating synthetic composites using common, sustainable fibers and the distinct characteristics of the resulting biological materials. The text also analyses many instances of composite hybrids and their application in the biological field. The results are summarised and suggestions for potential improvements are presented. The current research primarily examines the concept, specifications, efficiency, and potential advancements of composites with hybrid characteristics made from plant fibers.</p>","PeriodicalId":10881,"journal":{"name":"Current pharmaceutical biotechnology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2000,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Current pharmaceutical biotechnology","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2174/0113892010314833240815113622","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Plant fibers are strong, robust, flexible, versatile, renewable, and sustainable, making them valuable for many applications. Fibers from plants are now utilized in biomedical applications as reinforcements for biological composites to enhance the mechanical characteristics of composite biological materials including rigidity, tensile strength, and endurance. Reinforcement composites with hybrid components were explored in biodevices for prospective utilization in orthopedics, prosthetics, tissue fabrication, and surgical dressings. This review presents an overview of plant fibers, including their characteristics, influencing variables, and numerous applications. The text explores several methods for creating synthetic composites using common, sustainable fibers and the distinct characteristics of the resulting biological materials. The text also analyses many instances of composite hybrids and their application in the biological field. The results are summarised and suggestions for potential improvements are presented. The current research primarily examines the concept, specifications, efficiency, and potential advancements of composites with hybrid characteristics made from plant fibers.
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Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology aims to cover all the latest and outstanding developments in Pharmaceutical Biotechnology. Each issue of the journal includes timely in-depth reviews, original research articles and letters written by leaders in the field, covering a range of current topics in scientific areas of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology. Invited and unsolicited review articles are welcome. The journal encourages contributions describing research at the interface of drug discovery and pharmacological applications, involving in vitro investigations and pre-clinical or clinical studies. Scientific areas within the scope of the journal include pharmaceutical chemistry, biochemistry and genetics, molecular and cellular biology, and polymer and materials sciences as they relate to pharmaceutical science and biotechnology. In addition, the journal also considers comprehensive studies and research advances pertaining food chemistry with pharmaceutical implication. Areas of interest include:
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Drug delivery and targeting
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Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics
Applied Microbiology
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Environmental biotechnology
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Special Issues devoted to crucial topics, providing the latest comprehensive information on cutting-edge areas of research and technological advances, are welcome.
Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology is an essential journal for academic, clinical, government and pharmaceutical scientists who wish to be kept informed and up-to-date with the latest and most important developments.