Marine Biomaterials — Characterization, Isolation, and Applications

Chemists, biochemists, marine scientists, dermatologists and other contributors provide a broad reference to biological materials found in the oceans. They cover isolating and characterizing marine biomaterials, their biological activities, biomedical applications, and commercial application of marine-derived biomaterials. Among the topics are elucidating the structure and biological effects of carrageenans from red algae, marine toxins for natural products drug discovery, biosynthesizing and characterizing different nanoparticles and their larvicidal activity against human disease vectors, compounds from marine organisms with antiviral activity, the potential anti-coagulant effect of biomaterials derived from seaweed, applications in orthopedic and soft-tissue surgical challenges, applications in gene delivery, and chitosan and its derivatives as water purifiers. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Professor Se-Kwon Kim, Ph.D., is a senior professor in the Department of Chemistry and is the director of the Marine Bioprocess Research Center (MBPRC) at Pukyong National University in the Republic of Korea. His major research interests include investigation and development of bioactive substances derived from marine organisms and their application in Oriental medicine, nutraceuticals, and cosmeceuticals via marine bioprocessing and mass-production technologies. He is a board member of the International Society of Marine Biotechnology and the International Society for Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods. To date, he has authored more than 500 research papers, holds 110 patents, and has written or edited more than 40 books.