Sustainable biomaterials and their applications: A short review

Abstract The materials designed and developed to interact with the biological systems are called biomaterials. They are bioactive materials and easily compactable to the human tissue. They show good degree of biodegradability. They are commonly used in medicines, tissue engineering, manufacturing of human body parts and other manufacturing applications. The sustainability and biomaterials are co-complementary to each other and support the manufacturing/development of new sustainable materials with the induction of the advanced technological processes. The biomaterials are eco-friendly. They are either extracted from different biological resources or manufactured by using the green technology. Till date a number of biomaterials are designed and developed which have successfully applied in different biomedical fields as a potential alternative to the traditional materials. They are successfully used in the medical treatment like cancer therapy, repairing of ligaments and tendons, orthopedic applications, ophthalmic applications for designing contact lenses, wound healing, reproduction therapy of nerve generation, breast implants, and manufacturing of different surgical devices. Also they have some non-biomedical applications. In this short review different biomaterials and their possible properties and applications are summarized in details.