[HTML][HTML] Biosurfactants: multifunctional biomolecules of the 21st century

DKF Santos, RD Rufino, JM Luna, VA Santos… - International journal of …, 2016 - mdpi.com
In the era of global industrialisation, the exploration of natural resources has served as a
source of experimentation for science and advanced technologies, giving rise to the …

Biosurfactants: Production and potential applications in microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR)

SJ Geetha, IM Banat, SJ Joshi - Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology, 2018 - Elsevier
Microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR) is a type of enhanced oil recovery (EOR)
technology, generally employed as a tertiary stage where oil recovery using primary and …

Critical review on biosurfactant analysis, purification and characterization using rhamnolipid as a model biosurfactant

SJ Varjani, VN Upasani - Bioresource technology, 2017 - Elsevier
Surfactants are one of the most versatile group of chemicals used in various industrial
processes. Their market is competitive, and manufacturers will have to expand surfactant …

[HTML][HTML] Cost effective technologies and renewable substrates for biosurfactants' production

IM Banat, SK Satpute, SS Cameotra, R Patil… - Frontiers in …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Diverse types of microbial surface active amphiphilic molecules are produced by a range of
microbial communities. The extraordinary properties of biosurfactant/bioemulsifier (BS/BE) …

A review on natural surfactants

S De, S Malik, A Ghosh, R Saha, B Saha - RSC advances, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Natural surfactants or biosurfactants are amphiphilic biological compounds, usually
extracellular, produced by a variety of microorganisms from various substances including …

Surfactants: toxicity, remediation and green surfactants

S Rebello, AK Asok, S Mundayoor, MS Jisha - Environmental chemistry …, 2014 - Springer
Surfactants toxicity has induced a worldwide alert followed by various regulations. There are
still concerns about the biodegradability and ecofriendliness of surfactants. Reviews on …

Towards commercial production of microbial surfactants

S Mukherjee, P Das, R Sen - TRENDS in Biotechnology, 2006 - cell.com
Biosurfactants or microbial surfactants are surface-active biomolecules that are produced by
a variety of microorganisms. Biosurfactants have gained importance in the fields of …

Rhamnolipids as biosurfactants from renewable resources: concepts for next-generation rhamnolipid production

M Henkel, MM Müller, JH Kügler, RB Lovaglio… - Process …, 2012 - Elsevier
Several microorganisms are known to produce a wide variety of surface-active substances,
which are referred to as biosurfactants. Interesting examples for biosurfactants are …

Biosurfactants in food industry

M Nitschke, S Costa - Trends in Food Science & Technology, 2007 - Elsevier
The increasing environmental concern about chemical surfactants triggers attention to
microbial-derived surface-active compounds essentially due to their low toxicity and …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in utilization of renewable substrates for biosurfactant production

RS Makkar, SS Cameotra, IM Banat - AMB express, 2011 - Springer
Biosurfactants are amphiphilic molecules that have both hydrophilic and hydrophobic
moieties which partition preferentially at the interfaces such as liquid/liquid, gas/liquid or …