Carbon dioxide sequestration with carbonic anhydrase nanobiocatalysts: a review

D Sillu, V Achal - Environmental Chemistry Letters, 2024 - Springer
Lowering the adverse effects of climate change requires advanced methods to decrease
atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide. Here, we review the use of carbonic anhydrase …

Carbonic anhydrase hybrid nanoflowers: From facile synthesis to their therapeutic prospects; the known, the unknown and the future

M Hayat, M Sarfaraz, M Mohsin, SAR Bukhari - European Polymer Journal, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Carbonic anhydrase (CA)(EC 4.2. 1.1) is a ubiquitous enzyme present in nearly all
life forms. This metal hydroxide nucleophilic enzyme contains distinctive active site …

Fruit and vegetable waste used as bacterial growth media for the biocementation of two geomaterials

W Mwandira, M Mavroulidou, S Joshi… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the feasibility of using randomly collected fruit and vegetable (FV)
waste as a cheap growing medium of bacteria for biocementation applications …

A study of bacteria producing carbonic anhydrase enzyme for CaCO3 precipitation and soil biocementation

W Mwandira, M Mavroulidou, M Timmermans… - … Science and Pollution …, 2024 - Springer
We study the carbonic anhydrase (CA) pathway using autochthonous CA-producing
bacteria as a means of inducing calcite precipitation, which acts as a biocement to improve …

Transforming cancer detection and treatment with nanoflowers

BG Prajapati, K Verma, S Sharma, DU Kapoor - Medical Oncology, 2024 - Springer
Nanoflowers, an innovative class of nanoparticles with a distinctive flower-like structure,
have garnered significant interest for their straightforward synthesis, remarkable stability …

Reusing Dredged Material through Stabilization with So-Called Bio-Enzyme Products

S Rabbanifar, TTM Nguyen, Q Qian, NA Brake… - Buildings, 2023 - mdpi.com
Sediments are dredged from waterways to maintain maritime activities and prevent floods.
Exorbitant amounts of money are budgeted for the removal of dredged material (DM) and its …

[HTML][HTML] Sustainability in Geotechnics

AAS Correia, PJ Venda Oliveira - Applied Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
The development of humans and societies has posed huge challenges to geotechnics.
Since the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals established in the United Nations …

Soil biocementation using the carbonic anhydrase metabolic pathway

W Mwandira, M Mavroulidou, MJ Gunn… - … Challenges to Meet …, 2024 - taylorfrancis.com
Biocementation, ie, the soil cementation using cements produced biomimetically, has
recently been introduced as a method of ground improvement, which is potentially more eco …