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Biosurfactants: Challenges and Future Outlooks

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Advancements in Biosurfactants Research

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Global sustainability initiatives and green agenda have fostered industrial interest in biosurfactants over their chemical counterparts which are produced from nonrenewable resources. Biosurfactants have been getting serious consideration due to their biological availability, structural heterogeneity, lower toxicity, biodegradability, and activity under extreme environmental conditions. These advantages have encouraged commercial production of biosurfactants. However, production of the biosurfactants on larger scale has been limited by various factors which limit their commercialization. These include lower yields, production of a mixture of congener molecules which differ in their surface and interfacial properties and safety. Rhamnolipids produced by certain bacterial strains have been reported to act as immunomodulators and virulence factors. Addressing these issues will pave way towards large-scale manufacturing and commercialization of biosurfactants. Biosurfactant yields can be improved by optimizing the culture medium and the bioprocessing conditions. Significant efforts should be undertaken to improve downstream processing for biosurfactant recovery in order to improve the overall process economics and reduce environmental toxicity caused by the use of organic solvents. Further designer biosurfactants having specific properties can be constructed for specific industrial applications.

This chapter highlights the core problems associated with commercialization of the biosurfactants and gives a future outlook of biosurfactants in various industries.

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Zargar, A.N., Kumar, M., Srivastava, P. (2023). Biosurfactants: Challenges and Future Outlooks. In: Aslam, R., Mobin, M., Aslam, J., Zehra, S. (eds) Advancements in Biosurfactants Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21682-4_25

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