Overview
- Provides a comprehensive description of sources of exopolysaccharides, and advances in extraction technologies
- Addresses both the sustainability challenges and new opportunities to use microbial exopolysaccharides for industrial applications
- Describes the molecular and genetic basis of microbial exopolysacchaides
- Discusses the importance of exopolysaccharides to mitigate climate changes and carbon footprint
- Describe the total cost analysis and applications of circular economy
Part of the book series: Springer Series on Polymer and Composite Materials (SSPCM)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Kuttuvan Valappil Sajna (K V Sajna) is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India. She has completed her Ph.D. from the Department of Biotechnology, CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, Trivandrum, India in 2017. Her areas of interest are biosurfactants, exopolysaccharides, bioremediation and sustainable technology. Her work has been published in various internationally reputed journals namely GreenChemistry, Bioresource Technology, International Journal of Biological Macromolecules and Biochemical Engineering Journal. She has published 9 papers, 3 book chapters and 15 conference communications. She was a university gold medallist and one of the best business plan award winners in the CSIR Technology led entrepreneurship program. She has presented papers at international conferences including the 5th IFIBiop conference held at National Taiwan University, Taipei and ESBES-IFIBIOP 2014 Symposium held at Lille, France. She has also worked at the University of Naples, Italy for three months as a part of the Bioassort program under Marie Curie Actions –International Research Staff Exchange scheme.
Dr. Swati Sharma is working as assistant professor in University Institute of Biotechnology, Chandigarh University, Mohali, Punjab India. She is working extensively on the waste biomass, biopolymers and their applications in various fields. Dr. Sharma has completed her PhD. from University Malaysia Pahang, Malaysia. She worked as a visiting researcher in the college of life and environmental sciences at Konkuk University, Seoul South Korea. Dr. Sharma has completed her masters (M.Sc.) from Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni Solan H.P. India. She has also worked as a program co-coordinator at the Himalayan action research center Dehradun and Senior research fellow at India agricultural research institute in 2013-2014. Dr. Sharma has published her research papers in reputed international journals. Presently, Dr. Sharma's research is in the field of bioplastics, hydrogels, keratin nano-fibers and nano-particles, biodegradable polymers and polymers with antioxidant and anticancer activities and sponges. Dr. Swati has published 20 research papers in various internationally reputed journals, 5 books, and a couple of book chapters.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Microbial Exopolysaccharides as Novel and Significant Biomaterials
Editors: Ashok Kumar Nadda, Sajna K. V., Swati Sharma
Series Title: Springer Series on Polymer and Composite Materials
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75289-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-75288-0Published: 09 July 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-75291-0Published: 09 July 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-75289-7Published: 08 July 2021
Series ISSN: 2364-1878
Series E-ISSN: 2364-1886
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 339
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 26 illustrations in colour
Topics: Chemistry/Food Science, general, Applied Microbiology, Materials Science, general, Biomaterials