About the Journal

Everywhere you look, you will find plastics and they have displaced other materials that were previously used for the applications that plastics now dominate such as wood, metal, and glass.

However, the world faces a potential global oil supply shortage over the coming decade. On the other hand, the polymers of petrochemical origin are not biodegradable and there is only a capacity to fragment at the end of their life. Plastics from this fragmentation could migrate into waters or other ecosystems. It would therefore seem that these microplastics act as particular refuges, bacteria must be able to hide inside and succeed in surviving and modifying ecosystems. As a solution, implementing biomaterials instead of synthetic materials. These biomaterials are naturally derived polymers from plants and microbes and are termed biopolymers, and it is in this context that our review fits.

Biopolymer Applications Journal fills the need for researchers and engineering in this field. The journal is a space for inspiring ideas and discussions of advances in the field of biopolymer applications in a wide range of disciplines for the publication of high-quality peer-reviewed original papers and review articles.

The journal is interdisciplinary in regard to contributions and covers the following subjects:    -Ageing; Biochemistry; Bioengineering; biomaterials, biomedical engineering; composites and nanocomposites; materials science; mechanical engineering; modeling and simulation; nanomaterial; polymers and plastics   and other related topics.