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Surfactant: Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfactant
This page provides a primer on surfactants of all types, including biosurfactants.
Methods for studying biosurfactants
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20210700
Biosurfactants can be characterized using a variety of physical and spectroscopic
methods, and this review discusses those methods.
Biosurfactants book
http://www.landesbioscience.com/books/special/id/1791/
This page describes a comprehensive open-source e-book on biosurfactants. It was published
in 2012, so it contains recent information.
Biosurfactant research group
http://rkt.chem.ox.ac.uk/projects/biosurfactants.html
This academic research page provides a good overview of biosurfactants.
Global biosurfactants market
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/11/prweb10158903.htm
While the full report is available only for a fee, this page hints at the importance
of biosurfactants commercially.
Biosurfactant-producing bacteria
http://www.ideaconnection.com/crowdfunding/isolation-and-characterization-of-biosurfactant-produ-00041.html
This page on the IdeaConnection website proposes research on bacterial biosurfactants.
Biosurfactants and bioremediation
http://envismadrasuniv.org/Bioremediation/pdf/Biosurfactants%20and%20oil%20bioremediation.pdf
This page links to a comprehensive review article on the role of biosurfactants in
bioremediation.
Biosurfactant-mediated biodegradation of alkanes
http://www.amb-express.com/content/1/1/9/abstract
This is a typical example in which an alkane-degrading pseudomonad makes a rhamnolipid
surfactant that aids in solubilizing and degrading the alkanes.
Studies on novel surfactants
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/iucrc/research.shtml
This list of research at a university centre describes numerous projects on surfactants,
including biosurfactants.
Microbes and oil spills
http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/science/publications/microbes/index-eng.html
This page contains a reprinting of a document from the American Academy of Microbiology
that answers frequently asked questions about oil spills, largely from the perspective
of how microorgansisms are impacted and impact the spill.
Biosurfactant structures
http://www.biosurf.ugent.be/Biosurfactantia.htm
This introduction to biosurfacants contains text and shows chemical structures of
characterized biosurfactants.
Patents on bioemulsifiers and biosurfactants
http://nopr.niscair.res.in/bitstream/123456789/4804/1/JSIR%2065(2)%2091-115.pdf
This review arrticle contains information on more than 250 patents relevant to biosurfactants.
Microbial production of biosurfactants
http://www.iisc.ernet.in/currsci/jul10/articles19.htm
This web review article contains detailed information and more than 160 references.
Biosurfactants in environmental processes
http://gradworks.umi.com/35/50/3550595.html
This page links to a dissertation that describes the multiple environmental roles
of microbial biosurfactants. Examples include their role in biodegradation and aid
in swarming motility.
New production processes for biosurfactants
http://www.igb.fraunhofer.de/en/competences/molecular-biotechnology/white-biotechnology/biosurf.html
This page describes an institutional programme to develop biosurfactants for industrial
uses.
Biosurfactants: Eugene Rosenberg
http://www.tau.ac.il/lifesci/departments/biotech/members/rosenberg/rosenberg.html
This personal web page contains links to many papers and patents pertaining to biosurfactants.
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