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Development of Alginate

Alginate is a natural polymer, an edible heteropolysaccharide, abundant in brown algae. Modified natural polymer materials have been used in drugs, tissue regeneration scaffolds, drug delivery, and imaging agents. Alginates have great potential in biomedical applications due to their biodegradability and biocompatibility. Especially in wound care, alginates are used as dressings and regeneration templates for acute or chronic wounds. Commercially available alginates are typically extracted from brown algae by treatment with sodium hydroxide (NaOH), followed by filtration to accelerate alginate formation. Alginates can be used in food processing. It can function as emulsifiers, curing agents, flavor enhancers, flavor enhancers, formulation, processing aids, stabilizers, surfactants, or thickeners. Alginates from different species of seaweed often differ in their chemical structure, resulting in different physical properties. During alginate development, CD BioSciences secures the source of alginate and prefers to source supplies from different geographic regions, so that if the algae in one region are affected by climatic conditions, there are alternative supplies available.

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CD BioSciences offers a range of services from contract research to business development to help manufacturers and users get the most out of their alginate.

Alginate Production

Alginate Production

The brown seaweeds CD BioSciences offers for the production of alginate are Ascophyllum, Durvillaea, Ecklonia, Laminaria, Lessonia, Macrocystis, and Sargassum. The production process of CD BioSciences alginate is relatively simple and can be divided into two categories: the calcium alginate method and the alginic acid method.

Alginate Extraction

Alginate Extraction

CD BioSciences has established a supply chain of stable procurement of high-quality seaweed, and will also provide extraction services of alginate or cooperation to customers by providing its state-of-the-art equipment, proprietary licenses, and its own expertise. The extraction methods including microwave-assisted extraction, ultrasound assisted extraction, calcium coagulation-ion exchange method and so on.

Alginate Purification

Alginate Purification

CD BioSciences has a strong technical force and strict quality control, and the services' quality is stable and reliable. CD BioSciences provides purification of not only sodium alginate, but also alginic acid and calcium, ammonium and potassium salts, and propylene glycol alginate.

Evaluation of Physicochemical Properties Alginate

Evaluation of Physicochemical Properties Alginate

At CD BioSciences, we are striving to establish original analytical techniques suitable for physicochemical properties evaluation of alginate, while fully evaluating the validity of the test methods themselves. Structural characterization of alginates can be performed using SEM, XRF, and FTIR techniques.

Chemical Modifications of Alginate

Chemical Modifications of Alginate

After years of rapid development, CD BioSciences has a completely professional customer service's system, matching corresponding service support solutions according to customer needs. Our chemical modification services including chemical modification service of the hydroxyl groups and chemical modification service of the carboxyl groups.

Evaluation of Alginate Biological Properties

Evaluation of Alginate Biological Properties

In the process of evaluating the properties of alginates, we have established analytical techniques that can properly evaluate materials in the medical field, such as low-endotoxin alginate analysis techniques.

Alginate Characterization

Alginate Characterization

CD BioSciences is committed to providing characterization services of alginate. At CD BioSciences, the alginates are purified by reprecipitation with ethanol and characterized by 1H-NMR, fluorescence spectroscopy, and infrared spectroscopy to determine their structure and physicochemical properties.

Key Features of Alginate

Alginate has some special properties: non-toxic, biocompatible, biodegradable, biostable, hydrophilic.

Applications of Alginate

  • Pharmaceuticals and therapeutic clinical observation
  • Delivery of drug molecules
  • Protein delivery
  • Wound dressings
  • Cell culture
  • Antibiotics development

CD BioSciences is a professional service provider for the marine biology industry. Our alginate development services can ensure that the most suitable methods and techniques are selected for your project. We provide our customers with the most precise ingredient data and highly informed process expertise. Our team of biomass experts plays a key role in the formulation, optimization and commercial evaluation of biomass value-added processes in industry and academia. If necessary, please feel free to contact us.

Please kindly note that our services can only be used to support research purposes (Not for clinical use).

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