Polysaccharides

<p>Polysaccharides offer unique and valuable functional properties persisting in technological importance and poised to grow more critical due to sustainability demands and emerging applications in medical and life sciences. This book presents comprehensive information about carbohydrate polymers providing readers with an enhanced appreciation of carbohydrate structure and function a new enzyme library and extraction strategies that will help to advance a number of exciting domains of research including genomics proteomics chemical synthesis materials science and engineering.</p><p><strong>Key Features</strong></p><ul> <li>Details the source production structures properties and current and potential applications of polysaccharides</li> <li>Discusses general strategies of isolation separation and characterization of polysaccharides</li> <li>Describes botanical algal animal and microbial sources of polysaccharides</li> <li>Demonstrates the importance of carbohydrates in new lead generation</li> <li>Highlights the range of possibilities for polysaccharides to make real-world impact</li> </ul>