Industrial potential of seaweeds in biomedical applications: Current trends and future prospects

Abstract

Among marine resources, seaweeds are valuable sources of structurally diverse functional materials. These functional materials have so far proved to have diverse biological activities, making them potential biomaterials and bioactive products of increasing importance for biomedical applications. In this contribution, we are focused on the most relevant studies on the functional materials found in seaweeds and their potential biomedical properties. This contribution presents an overview of the developments of current trends of seaweeds for biomedical applications, fundamental and potential of seaweeds products in biomedical industries.