If those small molecules are sugars, the polymer is called a polysaccharide. Sodium alginate is a polysaccharide found in brown seaweed. It consists of long chains of tiny clusters of sugars. On a ...

In the field of biomedical nanotechnology, chitosan and alginate —both naturally derived biopolymers — have garnered significant attention due to their ...

Sodium alginate is made up of long chains of repeating molecules, similar to necklaces. It comes from a type of seaweed. When the sodium alginate is placed in the calcium lactate, a chemical reaction ...

In water, jelly bombs release a goo made from sodium alginate, which comes from a mineral-rich seaweed. LUSH's factory in Poole has around 800 members of staff. They made over 50 million items ...

The researchers made the hydrogel in part using sodium alginate, a seaweed-derived salt, and silver nanoparticles. Then they applied the sticky substance on a small patch to wood from Nanhai No. 1 ...

Three Tokyo high school students have created recyclable gloves using a fiber found in seaweed slime ... finger into an aqueous solution of sodium alginate and then into an aqueous solution ...

Norwegian company FMC Biopolymer converts seaweed to alginate for use in thousands of products with an advanced 24 hour chemical process. ABB has supplied process automation, motors and drives to ...