Biosurfactants: potential and eco-friendly material for sustainable agriculture and environmental safety—a review

E Gayathiri, P Prakash, N Karmegam, S Varjani… - Agronomy, 2022 - mdpi.com
With the present climate change and increasing world population, there is an urgent need to
discover creative, efficient, and cost-effective natural products for the benefit of humanity …

[HTML][HTML] Production of green surfactants: Market prospects

CBB Farias, FCG Almeida, IA Silva, TC Souza… - Electronic Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Science has greatly contributed to the advancement of technology and to the innovation of
production processes and their applications. Cleaning products have become indispensable …

Microbial production of rhamnolipids: opportunities, challenges and strategies

H Chong, Q Li - Microbial cell factories, 2017 - Springer
Rhamnolipids are a class of biosurfactants which contain rhamnose as the sugar moiety
linked to β-hydroxylated fatty acid chains. Rhamnolipids can be widely applied in many …

Biosurfactants and their applications in the oil and gas industry: current state of knowledge and future perspectives

C Nikolova, T Gutierrez - Frontiers in Bioengineering and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Surfactants are a group of amphiphilic chemical compounds (ie, having both hydrophobic
and hydrophilic domains) that form an indispensable component in almost every sector of …

Going green and cold: biosurfactants from low-temperature environments to biotechnology applications

A Perfumo, IM Banat, R Marchant - Trends in biotechnology, 2018 - cell.com
Approximately 80% of the Earth's biosphere is cold, at an average temperature of 5° C, and
is populated by a diversity of microorganisms that are a precious source of molecules with …

[HTML][HTML] Functional characterization of biomedical potential of biosurfactant produced by Lactobacillus helveticus

D Sharma, BS Saharan - Biotechnology Reports, 2016 - Elsevier
Various lactic acid bacteria (LAB) have been isolated and screened for biosurfactant
production and their biomedical and food applications. Additionally, various different …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of rhamnolipids on microorganism characteristics and applications in composting: A review

B Shao, Z Liu, H Zhong, G Zeng, G Liu, M Yu… - Microbiological …, 2017 - Elsevier
Biosurfactant rhmnolipids have been applied in many fields, especially in environmental
bioremediation. According to previous researches, many research groups have studied the …

Production and characterization of rhamnolipid using palm oil agricultural refinery waste

MN Radzuan, IM Banat, J Winterburn - Bioresource Technology, 2017 - Elsevier
In this research we assess the feasibility of using palm oil agricultural refinery waste as a
carbon source for the production of rhamnolipid biosurfactant through fermentation. The …

Extreme environments: a source of biosurfactants for biotechnological applications

J Schultz, AS Rosado - Extremophiles, 2020 - Springer
The surfactant industry moves billions of dollars a year and consists of chemically
synthesized molecules usually derived from petroleum. Surfactant is a versatile molecule …

Metagenome enrichment approach used for selection of oil-degrading bacteria consortia for drill cutting residue bioremediation

AB Guerra, JS Oliveira, RCB Silva-Portela… - Environmental …, 2018 - Elsevier
Drill cuttings leave behind thousands of tons of residues without adequate treatment,
generating a large environmental liability. Therefore knowledge about the microbial …