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 …

Self-assembly, interfacial properties, interactions with macromolecules and molecular modelling and simulation of microbial bio-based amphiphiles (biosurfactants). A …

N Baccile, C Seyrig, A Poirier, S Alonso-de Castro… - Green …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Chemical surfactants are omnipresent in consumer products, but they are the subject of
environmental concerns. For this reason, the complete replacement of petrochemical …

Recent advances in biomedical, therapeutic and pharmaceutical applications of microbial surfactants

C Ceresa, L Fracchia, E Fedeli, C Porta, IM Banat - Pharmaceutics, 2021 - mdpi.com
The spread of antimicrobial-resistant pathogens typically existing in biofilm formation and
the recent COVID-19 pandemic, although unrelated phenomena, have demonstrated the …

Rhamnolipid self-aggregation in aqueous media: A long journey toward the definition of structure–property relationships

R Esposito, I Speciale, C De Castro, G D'Errico… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The need to protect human and environmental health and avoid the widespread use of
substances obtained from nonrenewable sources is steering research toward the discovery …

[HTML][HTML] Surface active agents and their health-promoting properties: Molecules of multifunctional significance

I Anestopoulos, DE Kiousi, A Klavaris, A Galanis… - Pharmaceutics, 2020 - mdpi.com
Surface active agents (SAAs) are molecules with the capacity to adsorb to solid surfaces
and/or fluid interfaces, a property that allows them to act as multifunctional ingredients (eg …

Biosurfactants' potential role in combating COVID-19 and similar future microbial threats

PA Çelik, EB Manga, A Çabuk, IM Banat - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
During 2020, the world has experienced extreme vulnerability in the face of a disease
outbreak. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic discovered in China and …

Biosurfactants: Secondary metabolites involved in the process of bioremediation and biofilm removal

S Bhadra, D Chettri, A Kumar Verma - Applied biochemistry and …, 2023 - Springer
The search for environmentally friendly methods to remove persistent substances such as
organic pollutants and sessile communities such as biofilms that severely affect the …

Biosurfactants: the next generation biomolecules for diverse applications

G Rawat, A Dhasmana, V Kumar - Environmental Sustainability, 2020 - Springer
Biosurfactants are surface-active biomolecules, produced by various microbes and play an
imperative role in different fields. A lot of research work is going on including media …

Phase behaviour, functionality, and physicochemical characteristics of glycolipid surfactants of microbial origin

K Sałek, SR Euston, T Janek - Frontiers in Bioengineering and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Growing demand for biosurfactants as environmentally friendly counterparts of chemically
derived surfactants enhances the extensive search for surface-active compounds of …

Microbial surfactants in nanotechnology: recent trends and applications

M Nitschke, CA Marangon - Critical Reviews in Biotechnology, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The interest in nano-sized materials to develop novel products has increased exponentially
in the last decade, together with the search for green methods for their synthesis. An …