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Marine Invertebrates of Boka Kotorska Bay Unique Sources for Bioinspired Materials Science

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The Boka Kotorska Bay Environment

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Marine invertebrates from Boka Kotorska Bay represent a gold mine for both marine pharmacology and biotechnology as well as for bioinspired materials science. Especially sponges are highly perspective organisms due to their ability to grow under marine farming conditions and to synthetize biologically active secondary metabolites as well as diverse biopolymers. Their skeletal structures contain unique biocomposites made of organic templates and calcium carbonate, or silica phases. Studies on structural biopolymers like aminopolysaccharide chitin or proteinaceous keratin-like spongin are current topics of scientific interest today. Chitinous scaffolds of poriferan origin are discussed as unique templates for application in extreme biomimetics and tissue engineering.

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The study was financed within the DFG project EH-301, BromMarin GmbH, INTIB GmbH (Germany) as well as BHMZ program of Dr. Erich Krüger Foundation (Germany) at TU Bergakademie Freiberg

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Ehrlich, H. et al. (2016). Marine Invertebrates of Boka Kotorska Bay Unique Sources for Bioinspired Materials Science. In: Joksimović, A., Djurović, M., Semenov, A., Zonn, I., Kostianoy, A. (eds) The Boka Kotorska Bay Environment . The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, vol 54. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/698_2016_25

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