Immobilization studies on micro algae are quite recent with 70% of the studies published in
the last ten years. Whereas thirty genera were tested for various technological applications …

Alginate extracted from the macroalgae Sargassum sinicola was used as the raw material
for co-immobilization of the microalgae Chlorella sorokiniana and growth-promoting …

BACKGROUND Microalgae are a diverse group of photosynthetic microorganisms of
significant interest to the biotechnology industry, either as a sustainable source of natural …

The bottleneck for the production of biofuels from microalgae consists on costly harvesting
processes and low lipid production, immobilization technology could play a part on making …

Marine diatoms play a very crucial role in carbon export, and current food-web and become
an important factor in global silica cycle. This then has made the mechanism of their …

Research on renewable energy from microalgae has led to a growing interest in porous
substrate photobioreactors, but their widespread adoption is currently limited to pure …

Diatoms—unicellular photosynthetic algae—are promising natural sources of
nanostructured silica. These microorganisms produce in their membrane approximately a …

Highlights•Algal cell cultures can produce nanostructured biopolymers.•Au 0 and Ag 0
nanoparticles can be continually produced by algae.•Diatom biosilica can be functionalized …

Microalgae immobilization was widely studied to address the challenge of algal cells
harvesting, however, its stability and efficiency in treating real food industrial wastewater has …

Stresses imposed on the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 by various
compounds present during silica sol–gel encapsulation, including salt, ethanol (EtOH) …