Advances in Microbial Surfactants: Production and Applications (2nd Edition)
A special issue of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607). This special issue belongs to the section "Microbial Biotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2025 | Viewed by 125
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biosurfactants; biofilms
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Interests: natural products; antioxidants; membrane technology; bioremediation; wastewater treatment; lactic acid bacteria; biosurfactants; cosmetic; agroindustrial wastes; bioadsorbents; biotechnology process
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is the continuation of our 2023 Special Issue “Advances in Microbial Surfactants: Production and Applications”.
The increasing demand for a more sustainable society motivates the search for green and eco-friendly alternatives to chemical-derived compounds. Microbial surfactants are potential candidates to replace synthetics, especially due to their biological origin and production from renewable resources. In addition, the interesting properties demonstrated by biosurfactants are useful for a range of industrial applications, from environmental to pharmaceutical. Due to their great metabolic versatility, bacteria are the most traditional surfactant producers; however, filamentous fungi, yeasts, algae, and extremophile bacteria and archaea are under-exploited. In this Special Issue, we invite authors to submit original articles focusing on (but not limited to) the following research topics: characterization of surfactants synthesized by novel strains, production of biosurfactants from alternative substrates emphasizing circular bioeconomy, and biological activity and applications of microbial surfactants in the health, agriculture, food, environmental, and nanotechnology fields.
Prof. Dr. Marcia Nitschke
Dr. Xanel Vecino
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biosurfactants
- agroindustrial wastes
- antimicrobial activity
- bioremediation
- biofilm
- nanotechnology
- glycolipid
- lipopeptide
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