Role of biocatalysis in sustainable chemistry

RA Sheldon, JM Woodley - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Based on the principles and metrics of green chemistry and sustainable development,
biocatalysis is both a green and sustainable technology. This is largely a result of the …

Applications of immobilized lipases in enzymatic reactors: A review

D Remonatto, RH Miotti Jr, R Monti, JC Bassan… - Process …, 2022 - Elsevier
Lipases are efficient biocatalysts with numerous applications in different industrial sectors,
such as pharmaceutical, food, and fine chemistry industries. Enzyme immobilization further …

Self assembling nanoparticle enzyme clusters provide access to substrate channeling in multienzymatic cascades

JC Breger, JN Vranish, E Oh, MH Stewart… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Access to efficient enzymatic channeling is desired for improving all manner of designer
biocatalysis. We demonstrate that enzymes constituting a multistep cascade can self …

Chemical and physical Chitosan modification for designing enzymatic industrial biocatalysts: How to choose the best strategy?

YL Nunes, FL de Menezes, IG de Sousa… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Chitosan is one of the most abundant natural polymer worldwide, and due to its inherent
characteristics, its use in industrial processes has been extensively explored. Because it is …

Immobilized lipases for biodiesel production: Current and future greening opportunities

E Quayson, J Amoah, S Hama, A Kondo… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2020 - Elsevier
As green catalysts, lipases' productivity, and wide substrate selectivity are preferable over
chemical catalysts in biodiesel production. Lipases require milder reaction conditions and …

CLEAs, combi-CLEAs and 'smart'magnetic CLEAs: Biocatalysis in a bio-based economy

RA Sheldon - Catalysts, 2019 - mdpi.com
Biocatalysis has emerged in the last decade as a pre-eminent technology for enabling the
envisaged transition to a more sustainable bio-based economy. For industrial viability it is …

Tunable polymeric scaffolds for enzyme immobilization

A Rodriguez-Abetxuko… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The number of methodologies for the immobilization of enzymes using polymeric supports is
continuously growing due to the developments in the fields of biotechnology, polymer …

Applications and immobilization strategies of the copper-centred laccase enzyme; a review

HD Kyomuhimbo, HG Brink - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
Laccase is a multi-copper enzyme widely expressed in fungi, higher plants, and bacteria
which facilitates the direct reduction of molecular oxygen to water (without hydrogen …

The road to biorenewables: carbohydrates to commodity chemicals

RA Sheldon - ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2018 - ACS Publications
The pressing need for climate change mitigation has focused attention on reducing global
emissions of carbon dioxide by effectuating the transition from fossil-based chemicals …

Designing of nanomaterials-based enzymatic biosensors: Synthesis, properties, and applications

FTT Cavalcante, IR de A. Falcão, JE da S. Souza… - Electrochem, 2021 - mdpi.com
Among the many biological entities employed in the development of biosensors, enzymes
have attracted the most attention. Nanotechnology has been fostering excellent prospects in …