Carbohydrate Polymer Technologies and Applications

Carbohydrate Polymer Technologies and Applications is an open access scholarly journal devoted to scientific and technological aspects and applications of polymers and oligomers containing carbohydrate. Carbohydrate Polymer Technologies and Applications is a companion journal to Carbohydrate Polymers with a broader and more inclusive reach to cater for the increased spread of research interests. Carbohydrate Polymer Technologies and Applications covers all polymers and oligomers containing carbohydrate, including carbohydrate polymers, cyclodextrins, glycoproteins, glycolipids, dendrimers containing carbohydrate, glycopeptide linkages, glycoproteins, lipopolysaccharides, peptidoglycans and proteoglycans. We also welcome papers that include carbohydrate-directed enzymes where they are working on or applied to macromolecular carbohydrate substrates. To be acceptable for publications papers must focus majorly, but not exclusively upon the carbohydrate polymer of the molecule under consideration.
From the molecular point of view, characteristics of the carbohydrate-containing molecule will be paramount covering analysis, molecular weight, structure, physicochemical aspects. Enzymic biodegradation and biosynthesis of carbohydrate-containing molecules will also be covered. Papers on the technology of creating new carbohydrate-containing molecules will be of major interest.
From the applications point of view, coverage will be broad including the wholescale use of the above-mentioned types of carbohydrate in archaeology, botany, chemical engineering, chemical industry, farming, genetic engineering, healthcare, materials science and medicine.
All papers will have in their title and abstract the name of at least one carbohydrate-containing molecule on which the paper is majorly focussed. That carbohydrate content must include at least two monosaccharide units, and therefore the scope of the journal will include neither free monosaccharides nor monomeric-carbohydrate molecules such as simple glycosides.