The use of biopolymer‐based drug delivery systems is increasing in the pharmaceutical area due to them biodegradable and biocompatible properties. In this work, a poly (butylene succinate) (PBS) grafted with poly (hydroxypropyl methacrylate) (PHPMA), PBSgPHPMA, is prepared using maleic unsaturations inserted in the PBS chain during its synthesis. Several characterization techniques are used to study the homopolymers and the grafted material. Among them, Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR), Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), and X‐ray diffraction (XRD) allowed inferring the obtaining of the aimed materials. Also, the copolymer is used to prepare microparticles containing Meloxicam by emulsification and solvent evaporation method. These microparticles are tested as drug delivery systems under pH 8.5 (gastrointestinal) and pH 5.5 (skin). The primary results allowed inferring that the grafted material can be used as a drug delivery system, showing that the release rate at pH 5.5 allowed the slower delivery rate among tested materials.

Environmental impacts are increasingly due to the human polluting activities. Therefore, there is a need to develop technologies capable of removing contamination and driving the impacted environment as close as possible to its inherent characteristics. One of the major problems still faced is the spill of oil into water. Therefore, to solve the environmental problem, this work shows the use of magnetically modified geopolymer materials as an oil remover from water with a magnet’s aid. The results obtained were outstanding since the average intrinsic oil removal capability (IORC) was 150 g/g. The presented IORC is the largest found in the materials produced by our research group, constituting an extremely encouraging result, mainly because of the ease of preparing the magnetic geopolymer system. Furthermore, the low cost of production and the material’s capability to be reused as filler of polymer or even cementitious matrices allows us to project that this nanocomposite can be widely used, constituting an economically viable alternative for more efficient environmental recovery processes.

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