Abstract
Biopolymers have been demonstrated to be highly versatile materials, capable of replacing petroleum-derived polymers in many areas. However, this statement is true only when biopolymers are broadly defined, that is, when they are defined to be both synthetic biopolymers (i.e., biomolecule-based synthetic polymers) and natural biopolymers, including biopolymers obtained directly from natural sources and chemically modified natural biopolymers. Note that petroleum-derived polymers can be structural or functional, with the latter being those that, due to their nonstructural character, are more similar to the biopolymers from a structural approach. In previous chapters, the fundamental aspects of biopolymers were developed from an environmental approach and from a general applied vision. In this chapter, a specific application is addressed in order to show the versatility of biopolymers in the different fields of application. Thus, this chapter is focused on a specific analytical application: the construction of sensing surfaces in microbiological analysis.
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