The BioMatter lab conducts research on the following topics:
- valorisation of by-products such as polymers, bioactive molecules, and structures to obtain raw materials, improving the functional properties of biopolymers (e.g. alginate, hyaluronic acid, and collagen) through modification and consequently developing high-value processes and products for biomedical and tissue engineering applications;
- relationships between structure and material properties of polysaccharides with a focus on the development of natural polymers e.g. polysaccharides into hierarchical structures such as scaffolds and hydrogels for tissue engineering applications such as skin wound healing;
- additive manufacturing of biomaterials with a focus on improving the functional properties of biopolymers such as keratin and developing new bioinks for bioprinting from biotransformation of biomass with tailored degradation kinetic properties.
The laboratory studies marine oligosaccharides and marine fish collagen as a potential bioagent for biomaterials engineering. Further, the group is using cutting-edge biofabrication techniques to demonstrate the potential of 3D bacterial constructs, for instance with respect to green bioremediation for the removal of hazardous environmental pollutants or to develop innovative food products.
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Standard name: Biomass Transformation Lab
Parent institute: Université Libre de Bruxelles; Faculty of Applied Sciences (ULB), more
Address:
CPCP 165/61
Avenue F.D. Roosevelt
1050 Brussel
Belgium
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Type: Scientific
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1 Director: Head of the department 2 Marine scientist: Works in this research group and acts as (co-)author in at least one marine publication in the last 5 years. 3 Specialized personnel: Provides administrative or technical support to marine scientific research.
( 7 peer reviewed ) split up filter
 Okoro, O.V.; Nie, L.; Gunduz, O.; Ulag, S.; Hamidi, M.; Shavandi, A. (2023). Technoeconomic assessment of biopolymer production from crustacean waste with the UK as a case study. Sustainability 15(3): 2280. https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su15032280, more- Jafari, H.; Alimoradi, H.; Delporte, C.; Bernaerts, K.V.; Heidari, R.; Podstawczyk, D.; Niknezhad, S.V.; Shavandi, A. (2022). An injectable, self-healing, 3D printable, double network co-enzymatically crosslinked hydrogel using marine poly- and oligo-saccharides for wound healing application. Applied Materials Today 29: 101581. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apmt.2022.101581, more
- Jafari, H.; Delporte, C.; Bernaerts, K.V.; Alimoradi, H.; Nie, L.; Podstawczyk, D.; Tam, K.C.; Shavandi, A. (2022). Synergistic complexation of phenol functionalized polymer induced in situ microfiber formation for 3D printing of marine-based hydrogels. Green Chem. 24(6): 2409-2422. https://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d1gc04347a, more
- Jafari, H.; Delporte, C.; Bernaerts, K.V.; De Leener, G.; Luhmer, M.; Nie, L.; Shavandi, A. (2021). Development of marine oligosaccharides for potential wound healing biomaterials engineering. Chemical Engineering Journal Advances 7: 100113. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ceja.2021.100113, more
- Jafari, H.; Bernaerts, K.V.; Dodi, G.; Shavandi, A. (2020). Chitooligosaccharides for wound healing biomaterials engineering. Mater. Sci. Eng. C, Biomim. Mater., Sens. Syst. 117: 111266. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.msec.2020.111266, more
- Jafari, H.; Lista, A.; Siekapen, M.M.; Ghaffari-Bohlouli, P.; Nie, L.; Alimoradi, H.; Shavandi, A. (2020). Fish collagen: extraction, characterization, and applications for biomaterials engineering. Polymers 12(10): 2230. https://hdl.handle.net/10.3390/polym12102230, more
- Shavandi, A.; Jalalvandi, E. (2019). Biofabrication of bacterial constructs: new three-dimensional biomaterials. Bioengineering-Basel 6(2): 44. https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering6020044, more
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