Overview
- Outlines the advantages of using ionic liquids in biotechnology
- Presents diverse interactions of ionic liquids with biomolecules and biomaterials
- Explores the environmental effects of ionic liquids in biotechnological applications
Part of the book series: Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology (ABE, volume 168)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This volume explores how ionic liquids are used in different areas of biotechnology. It also provides insights on the interaction of ionic liquids with biomolecules and biomaterials.
Ionic liquids have become essential players in the fields of synthesis, catalysis, extraction and electrochemistry, and their unique properties have opened a wide range of applications in biotechnology. Readers will discover diverse examples of the application of ionic liquids as solvents for biomaterials extraction and pretreatment, in enzymatic and whole cell catalysed reaction, and as activation agents for biocatalysis. Particular attention is given to the biologically functionalized ionic liquids employed in medical and pharmaceutical applications. Although ionic liquids are considered “green solvents”, the contributing authors will also explore their environmental impact when applied to biotechnology.
Chemical, biological and medical scientists interested in ionic liquids and biotechnology will find this work instructive and informative.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Toshiyuki Itoh graduated at Tokyo University of Education in 1976. After working as a chemistry teacher in high schools in his hometown in Mie prefecture, he decided to go back to the University and received his Ph.D. degree in 1986 from the University of Tokyo. He was appointed Assistant Professor at the Okayama University in 1987, then promoted to Associate Professor in 1990. He worked with Professor Anthony G. M. Barrett as a visiting scholar at Colorado State University in 1990-1991 and moved to Tottori University in 2002, where he was promoted to full Professor in 2004 and is now director of the Center for Research on Green Sustainable Chemistry. He is recipient of the Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry Japan Award (2010), and the Green and Sustainable Chemistry Award Japan (2009). He served as President of the Society of Fluorine Chemistry, Japan (2013-2015), and has been the representative of the managing committee of the Ionic Liquids Research Association, Japan, since 2014. He is serving as director of the Chemical Society of Japan since 2016.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Application of Ionic Liquids in Biotechnology
Editors: Toshiyuki Itoh, Yoon-Mo Koo
Series Title: Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23081-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23080-7Published: 05 August 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23083-8Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-23081-4Published: 24 July 2019
Series ISSN: 0724-6145
Series E-ISSN: 1616-8542
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 336
Number of Illustrations: 142 b/w illustrations, 25 illustrations in colour
Topics: Biotechnology, Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics, Physical Chemistry, Green Chemistry, Biomaterials, Biomedical Engineering/Biotechnology