Biosurfactant Producing Microbes and their Potential Applications: A Review
Publication type: Journal Article
Publication date: 2014-09-26
scimago Q1
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SJR: 3.788
CiteScore: 31.8
Impact factor: 13.2
ISSN: 10643389, 15476537
Environmental Engineering
Pollution
Waste Management and Disposal
Water Science and Technology
Abstract
Biosurfactants are surface-active biomolecules produced by microbes (bacteria, fungi, and yeast) and have several advantages over the chemical surfactants, such as lower toxicity, higher biodegradability, better environmental compatibility, higher foaming, high selectivity, and specific activity under extreme conditions such as temperature, pH, and salinity. Almost all the surfactants now available in the market are chemically synthesized. Recently, attention toward the biosurfactants was doubled, which is mainly due to their wide range of functional properties and the diverse synthetic capabilities of the microbes. Microbial biosurfactants are found to have a wide range of applications in environmental protection, which include enhancing oil recovery, controlling oil spills, biodegradation, and detoxification of oil-contaminated industrial effluents and soils. Biosurfactants produced by microorganisms have potential applications in pharmaceutical/medicine, food, cosmetic, pesticide, oil, and biodegradati...
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SHEKHAR S., Sundaramanickam A., Balasubramanian T. Biosurfactant Producing Microbes and their Potential Applications: A Review // Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology. 2014. Vol. 45. No. 14. pp. 1522-1554.
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SHEKHAR S., Sundaramanickam A., Balasubramanian T. Biosurfactant Producing Microbes and their Potential Applications: A Review // Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology. 2014. Vol. 45. No. 14. pp. 1522-1554.
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TY - JOUR
DO - 10.1080/10643389.2014.955631
UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/10643389.2014.955631
TI - Biosurfactant Producing Microbes and their Potential Applications: A Review
T2 - Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology
AU - SHEKHAR, SUDHANSHU
AU - Sundaramanickam, Arumugam
AU - Balasubramanian, Tangavel
PY - 2014
DA - 2014/09/26
PB - Taylor & Francis
SP - 1522-1554
IS - 14
VL - 45
SN - 1064-3389
SN - 1547-6537
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@article{2014_SHEKHAR,
author = {SUDHANSHU SHEKHAR and Arumugam Sundaramanickam and Tangavel Balasubramanian},
title = {Biosurfactant Producing Microbes and their Potential Applications: A Review},
journal = {Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology},
year = {2014},
volume = {45},
publisher = {Taylor & Francis},
month = {sep},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1080/10643389.2014.955631},
number = {14},
pages = {1522--1554},
doi = {10.1080/10643389.2014.955631}
}
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SHEKHAR, SUDHANSHU, et al. “Biosurfactant Producing Microbes and their Potential Applications: A Review.” Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, vol. 45, no. 14, Sep. 2014, pp. 1522-1554. https://doi.org/10.1080/10643389.2014.955631.