TY - CHAP
T1 - Pelagic Sargassum as a Source of Micro- and Nanocellulose for Environmentally Sustainable Plastics
AU - Castañeda-Serna, Héctor Uriel
AU - Calderón-Domínguez, Georgina
AU - De la Paz Salgado-Cruz, Ma
AU - García-Bórquez, Arturo
AU - Farrera-Rebollo, Reynold Ramón
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - One of the most critical environmental problems to solve is the plastic waste accumulation, due to the difficulty to biodegrade them, besides the release of toxic components, for humans and animals, produced during their degradation. One option to reduce this problem is related to the use of eco-friendly raw materials, and in this regard, many biopolymers from different sources have become a good option, being the algae, and in specific, the pelagic Sargassum is one of them. The main advantage of this alga comes from its chemical composition, as it contains alginate that is a common material to make environmentally friendly plastics, besides its high concentration of lignocellulosic materials, from which it is possible to produce nanocellulose. Another possible useful component reported from pelagic Sargassum is fucoidan, a sulfated carbohydrate with cytotoxic activities against bacteria, giving rise to the possibility of generating a new kind of functional plastics, helping to reduce the problem promoted by Sargassum in the Caribbean Sea. In this chapter, recent information about the extraction of compounds from pelagic Sargassum as alginate, nanocellulose, and fucoidan, for applying in the elaboration of bioplastics with functional activities, will be discussed.
AB - One of the most critical environmental problems to solve is the plastic waste accumulation, due to the difficulty to biodegrade them, besides the release of toxic components, for humans and animals, produced during their degradation. One option to reduce this problem is related to the use of eco-friendly raw materials, and in this regard, many biopolymers from different sources have become a good option, being the algae, and in specific, the pelagic Sargassum is one of them. The main advantage of this alga comes from its chemical composition, as it contains alginate that is a common material to make environmentally friendly plastics, besides its high concentration of lignocellulosic materials, from which it is possible to produce nanocellulose. Another possible useful component reported from pelagic Sargassum is fucoidan, a sulfated carbohydrate with cytotoxic activities against bacteria, giving rise to the possibility of generating a new kind of functional plastics, helping to reduce the problem promoted by Sargassum in the Caribbean Sea. In this chapter, recent information about the extraction of compounds from pelagic Sargassum as alginate, nanocellulose, and fucoidan, for applying in the elaboration of bioplastics with functional activities, will be discussed.
KW - Alginate
KW - Fucoidan
KW - Nanocellulose
KW - Nanoparticles
KW - Pelagic Sargassum
KW - Plastics
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85126265340&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-81557-8_14
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-81557-8_14
M3 - Capítulo
AN - SCOPUS:85126265340
T3 - Nanotechnology in the Life Sciences
SP - 345
EP - 364
BT - Nanotechnology in the Life Sciences
PB - Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
ER -