Sustainable treatment of dye wastewater by recycling microalgal and diatom biogenic materials: Biorefinery perspectives

A Rai, V Sirotiya, M Mourya, MJ Khan, A Ahirwar… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Discharge of untreated or partially treated toxic dyes containing wastewater from textile
industries into water streams is hazardous for environment. The use of heavy metal (s) rich …

Insights into diatom microalgal farming for treatment of wastewater and pretreatment of algal cells by ultrasonication for value creation

MJ Khan, A Ahirwar, B Schoefs, A Pugazhendhi… - Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Wastewater management and its treatment have revolutionized the industry sector into many
innovative techniques. However, the cost of recycling via chemical treatment has major …

Latest trends and developments in microalgae as potential source for biofuels: The case of diatoms

M Mourya, MJ Khan, A Ahirwar, B Schoefs, J Marchand… - Fuel, 2022 - Elsevier
Microalgae are microscopic plants which are found in water, snow as well as land. They are
one of the major resources of biofuel. However, the phenomenon of biolipid accumulation …

Employing newly developed plastic bubble wrap technique for biofuel production from diatoms cultivated in discarded plastic waste

MJ Khan, R Gordon, S Varjani, V Vinayak - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Algal culturing in photobioreactors for biofuel and other value-added products is a challenge
globally specifically due to expensive closed or open photobioreactors associated with the …

Nanotechnological approaches to disrupt the rigid cell walled microalgae grown in wastewater for value-added biocompounds: commercial applications, challenges …

A Ahirwar, G Meignen, MJ Khan, N Khan, A Rai… - Biomass Conversion …, 2021 - Springer
Cell disruption is very important for the value-added biocompounds (VAB) to come out from
microalgae. Among the most demanding microalgae at industrial level, diatoms and …

Catalyst in algal refinery: A way towards production of high-quality biofuel

S Chakraborty, V Sirotiya, A Rai, S Varjani… - … Chemistry and Pharmacy, 2023 - Elsevier
Microalgae are considered as the major resource to produce biofuel. However, among many
microalgae it is essential to screen those which are robust in their growth and accumulate …

TiO 2 doped polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) and Luffa cylindrica based photocatalytic nanosponge to absorb and desorb oil in diatom solar panels

MJ Khan, R Singh, KB Joshi, V Vinayak - RSC advances, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Our previous report (s) demonstrated that piezoelectric disc fabricated diatom solar panels
worked as micro resonating devices. Such devices have potential to harvest oils from living …

Hydrogen economy and storage by nanoporous microalgae diatom: special emphasis on designing photobioreactors

A Rai, MJ Khan, A Ahirwar, R Deka, N Singh… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Storing multiple energy forms from microalgae is not only facile but also lowers the cost of
culturing the microalgae. Among many microalgae, diatoms are microscopic glass …

Photosystem I P700 chlorophyll a apoprotein A1 as PCR marker to identify diatoms and their associated lineage

V Vinayak, MJ Khan, AN Jha… - Journal of Eukaryotic …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The morphological characteristics of diatoms are useful for studying their taxonomy.
However, the distinction between closely related diatom taxa can be very difficult, especially …

Biofabrication of Diatom Surface by Tyrosine‐Metal Complexes: Smart Microcontainers to Inhibit Bacterial Growth

R Singh, MJ Khan, J Rane, A Gajbhiye… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This study explores the potential of a highly biocompatible golden brown algal cell, diatom,
as a drug carrier to the bacterial cell. The strong interaction between diatom and bacteria …