Application of Microorganism in Polymer Production
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2022) | Viewed by 392
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Microorganisms are fascinating living systems revealing numerous extraordinary characteristics and astonishing metabolic versatility. They are capable of utilizing an unlimited variety of substrates and metabolic strategies to successfully colonize all the inches on the Earth. An important part of their successful strategy is the biosynthesis of various polymeric materials (e.g. polysaccharides, polyamides, polyesters, polyphosphates, etc.) providing numerous functions such as storage, protection, biofilm formation, stress robustness enhancement, etc. Nevertheless, apart from their biological functions, these materials are also very interesting in their characteristics, properties as well as in their potential applications.
Therefore, the aim of this special is to expand the current knowledge in the field and gather high-quality papers dealing with production, isolation, characterization, and also applications of microbial polymers.
Dr. Petr Sedláček
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- biopolymers
- bioplastics
- microbial biotechnology
- next generation industrial biotechnology
- downstream processing
- application of bioplastics
- biodegradation
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