A review on biosurfactants: properties, applications and current developments

AR Markande, D Patel, S Varjani - Bioresource Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
Microbial surfactants are a large number of amphipathic biomolecules with a myriad of
biomolecule constituents from various microbial sources that have been studied for their …

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 …

Green surfactants for corrosion control: Design, performance and applications

C Verma, CM Hussain, MA Quraishi… - Advances in Colloid and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Surfactants enjoy an augmented share of hydrophilicity and hydrophobicity and are well-
known for their anticorrosive potential. The use of non-toxic surfactants is gaining growing …

Biosurfactants: eco-friendly and innovative biocides against biocorrosion

G Płaza, V Achal - International journal of molecular sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Corrosion influenced by microbes, commonly known as microbiologically induced corrosion
(MIC), is associated with biofilm, which has been one of the problems in the industry. The …

Engineering strategies and applications of cyanobacterial exopolysaccharides: A review on past achievements and recent perspectives

S Debnath, M Muthuraj, TK Bandyopadhyay… - Carbohydrate …, 2024 - Elsevier
Cyanobacteria are ideally suited for develo** sustainable biological products but are
underdeveloped due to a lack of genetic tools. Exopolysaccharide (EPS) is one of the …

A review on the physicochemical and biological applications of biosurfactants in biotechnology and pharmaceuticals

V Abbot, D Paliwal, A Sharma, P Sharma - Heliyon, 2022 - cell.com
Biosurfactants are the chemical compounds that are obtained from various micro-organisms
and possess the ability to decrease the interfacial tension between two similar or different …

Extraction, purification and applications of biosurfactants based on microbial-derived glycolipids and lipopeptides: a review

S Venkataraman, DS Rajendran, PS Kumar… - Environmental …, 2022 - Springer
Microbial biosurfactants are sustainable alternatives for synthetic counterparts, and display
high biodegradability, environmental compatibility, and high selectivity. While previous …

The Surfactin-Like Lipopeptides From Bacillus spp.: Natural Biodiversity and Synthetic Biology for a Broader Application Range

A Théatre, C Cano-Prieto, M Bartolini… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Surfactin is a lipoheptapeptide produced by several Bacillus species and identified for the
first time in 1969. At first, the biosynthesis of this remarkable biosurfactant was described in …

[HTML][HTML] Techno-economic assessment of Bacillus fermentation to produce surfactin and lichenysin

R Czinkóczky, Á Németh - Biochemical Engineering Journal, 2020 - Elsevier
The useful products like enzymes and biosurfactants render Bacilli good candidates for
bioprocesses. Despite the lack of the few reports on Bacilli based technologies, we aimed …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation by MALDI-TOF MS and PCA of the diversity of biosurfactants and their producing bacteria, as adaption to weathered oil components

SY Alsayegh, Z Al Disi, MA Al-Ghouti, N Zouari - Biotechnology Reports, 2021 - Elsevier
Indigenous Qatari bacterial strains were isolated from highly weathered oil-contaminated
sites, identified, and differentiated based on their protein profiles using matrix-assisted laser …