Bio-Sourced Polymers for 'One Health' Applications

Dear Colleagues,

The One Health concept is clearly an expanding field of the XXIst century. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (https://www.cdc.gov/onehealth/basics/index.html) “One Health is a collaborative, multisectoral, and transdisciplinary approach — working at the local, regional, national, and global levels — with the goal of achieving optimal health outcomes recognizing the interconnection between people, animals, plants, and their shared environment”. In that context, biopolymeric conjugates (e.g., cellulose, cyclodextrin, alginate, chitosan, lignin, polylactic acid, poly(3hydroxybutyrate)) have appeared as relevant alternatives to inorganic materials that, although widely used, seem to have negative properties when used on in vivo systems and high fabrication costs. In addition, although in recent years there has been considerable attention devoted to the development of bio-sourced polymers in medical, healthy, environmental applications, there is still a lot of progress to be made.

In this Special Issue, topics include (but are not limited to) synthesis, characterizations, modeling, biological investigations of systems based on biopolymers for One Health applications.

Dr. Stéphanie Leroy-Lhez
Guest Editor

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• bio-sourced polymers
• natural fibers
• human health
• animal health
• environmental
• One Health
• food safety
• antimicrobial resistance
• zoonotic diseases