Summary
Abstract The use of materials from renewable sources instead of fossil fuels is a crucial step forward in the industrial transition toward sustainability. Among polysaccharides, alginate stands out as a versatile and eco‐friendly candidate due to its ability to form functional complexes with cations. This review provides an up‐to‐date and comprehensive description of alginate complexation with specific cations, focusing on how interaction forces can be harnessed to tailor the physicochemical properties of cation‐alginate‐based functional materials. Methodologies and approaches for the development and multiscale characterization of these materials are introduced and discussed. Alginate complexes with mono‐, di‐, tri‐, and tetravalent cations (namely Ag + , Mg 2+ , Ca 2+ , Sr 2+ , Ba 2+ , Mn
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