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Biosurfactants – potential and applications
, 2014 Biosurfactants are molecules that exhibit pronounced surface and emulsifying activities, produced by a variety of microorganisms. A host of interesting features of biosurfactants, such as higher biodegradability, lower toxicity, and effectiveness at ...
Rodrigues, L. R., Teixeira, J. A.
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Study of the Performance of Plant Biosurfactants in Shampoo Formulations
Chemical Engineering TransactionsThe cosmetics industry has been seeking to replace petroleum-derived synthetic surfactants with safer and more sustainable alternatives. In this context, plant-based biosurfactants, such as saponins extracted from Chenopodium quinoa and Ananas comosus ...
Keila I. Costa +6 more
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Advances in the production of biosurfactants as green ingredients in home and personal care products
Frontiers in ChemistryHome and personal care industry is currently witnessing a growing demand for sustainable and eco-friendly alternatives to synthetic surfactants. This increase is fueled by concerns over the delayed degradation and environmental impact of the latter.
Makary Nasser +2 more
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Microbial Biosurfactants Role in Oil Products Biodegradation
, 2014 Biosurfactants have a wide-range of applications due to their unique properties like specificity, low toxicity and relative ease of preparation. These properties hold promise for biosurfactants to increase the degree of microbial destruction of petroleum
Aliievа, O.R. +2 more
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Microbial Cell FactoriesBackground Surfactants are an important chemical in the industry due to their unique properties to reduce surface tension between fluids. To date, raw materials involved for the synthesis of surfactants are mostly derived from petroleum-based compounds ...
Yan Jer Ng +6 more
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Biosurfactants: Properties, applications and emerging trends
South African Journal of Chemical EngineeringDifferent microbes release biosurfactants, which are specialists that act on biological surfaces. Biosurfactants are transported to the microbial film or released onto the external film, and they display hydrophilic and hydrophobic locations.
Chou-Yi Hsu +5 more
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Biossurfactantes: propriedades e aplicações
Química Nova, 2002 Chemically synthesized surfactants are widely used for many purposes in almost every sector of modern industry. Surface-active compounds of biological origin (biosurfactants) have been gaining attention in recent years because of some advantages such as ...
Nitschke Marcia, Pastore Gláucia Maria
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Journal of Japan Oil Chemists' Society, 1982 ISHIGAMI, Yutaka, YAMAZAKI, Shinsuke
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Production and characterization of biosurfactants
, 2018 This diploma thesis deals with the microbial production of biosurfactants of selected bacterial strains. In order to test the biosurfactant production ability, screening methods were chosen to be able to review the potential of the selected strains to ...
Kratochvílová, Olga
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