New Trends and Methods in Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Biocomposites and Biopolymer Waste
A special issue of Catalysts (ISSN 2073-4344). This special issue belongs to the section "Biocatalysis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 5814
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3. Multi-walled carbon nanotubes, fulerenes, and graphene functionalized with organophosphate anions of selenoacids and tioacids as potential electrode materials in lithium-ion batteries
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Dear Colleagues,
There is a growing interest in the replacement of plastics by natural biocomposites and bionanocomposites. A rapid increase in the number of these composites brings a new challenge – safe and advantageous utilization and recycling of packaging and other products based on natural biopolymers. One of the possibilities is the use of enzymatic hydrolysis with the use of modern methods allowing to advance and control the process. There are various important research directions in these studies including immobilization of enzymes, use of a microwave field, linearly polarized light, low-temperature plasma and other physicochemical methods of enzyme activation.
The aim of this special edition is to promote new physicochemical methods that may accelerate and improve the efficiency of the enzymatic hydrolysis, which could optimize the management of the increasing number of biomass and biopolymer-based packaging.
Prof. Dr. Wojciech Ciesielski
Prof. Dr. Karen Khachatryan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
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bio-nanocomposites
- enzymatic hydrolysis
- enzyme activation
- enzyme immobilisation
- biomass
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