Subcritical water refers to high-temperature and high-pressure water. A unique and useful
characteristic of subcritical water is that its polarity can be dramatically decreased with …

Plants and algae are the main sources of natural bioactive compounds used in the food and
pharmaceutical industries. It is very important to achieve an efficient and safe technique to …

Background Because of the important role of bioactive compounds in functional foods and
health care, more and more attention has been paid to the active components extracted by …

Extraction is a vital prerequisite in most scientific studies involving the isolation and analysis
of compounds from biological/environmental systems. The use of large quantities of organic …

Sub-critical water extraction is a brand-new separation technology. This paper mainly
discussed the principle, advantages of sub-critical water extraction, and its applications …

Highlights•Critical vision of water as a green extraction solvent.•Metric tools for assessing
the environmental sustainability of an extraction process.•Physicochemical properties of …

Water that maintains its liquid state in the temperature range from 100℃ to 374℃ is called
subcritical water, compressed hot water or pressurized hot water. This type of water has …

Review summarizes the research on the biomass conversion for production of chemicals
and an overview on recent activities of our research group on isolation of substances from …

We present an up-to-date review on the use of subcritical and supercritical extraction
processes to obtain functional bioactive compounds from different natural matrices …

Extractionalwaysinvolves achemicalmass transfer from one phase toanother. Theprinciples
of extraction are used to advantage in everyday life, for example in making juices, coffee and …