Bioremediation of contaminated groundwater or soil is currently the cheapest and the least
harmful method of removing xenobiotics from the environment. Immobilization of …

Engineering enzymes with improved catalytic properties in non-natural environments have
been concerned with their diverse industrial and biotechnological applications …

A short time after the discovery of ordered mesoporous materials, which possess unique
features such as high specific surface area and pore volume, highly uniform pore distribution …

Laccase is a promising biocatalyst with many possible applications, including
bioremediation, chemical synthesis, biobleaching of paper pulp, biosensing, textile finishing …

Halloysite nanotubes (HNTs) have been proposed as a potential support to immobilize
enzymes. Improving enzyme loading on HNTs is critical to their practical applications …

The biocatalytic performance of immobilized enzyme systems depends mostly on the
intrinsic properties of both biomolecule and support, immobilization technique and …

Biofuels could be defined as the fuels of the future, although much work is still required
before they will replace fossil fuels. In this review, lignocellulosic biomass based on straw …

Newly large-pore magnetic mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MMSNPs) with wormhole
framework structures were synthesized for the first time by using tetraethyl orthosilicate as …

World population growth, with the consequent consumption of primary resources and
production of waste, is progressively and seriously increasing the impact of anthropic …

Porous materials are widely employed as supports in the immobilisation of enzymes.
Traditionally macroporous materials with pore diameters> 50 nm were believed to be the …