Last week our rock-star LipoActives team joined the biosurfactants congress in Stuttgart – Germany. They return with new inspirations and a lot of motivation for their state-of-the-art sophorolipid research!
Column: Weg met dat plastic
Click here to read Prof. Wim Soetaert ‘s last column, published in Petrochem 09-2019.
Check our new book chapter in ‘Biobased Surfactants – 2nd Edition’
Biobased Surfactants: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications, Second Edition, covers biosurfactant synthesis and applications and demonstrates how to reduce manufacturing and purification costs, impurities, and by-products. Fully updated, this book covers surfactants in biomedical applications, detergents, personal care, food, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics,…
Enroll now for online course on ‘Biobased Products for a Sustainable (Bio)economy’!
Have you ever asked what “biobased” means or wondered about the key aspects in developing and commercializing biobased products? This course will answer those questions and more; highlighting the opportunities, hurdles, and driving forces of the bioeconomy. Enroll now on…
Article: Efficient sophorolipids production using food waste
In this article, the production of biosurfactant sophorolipids from several (food) waste streams was investigated, using the non-pathogenic yeast Starmerella bombicola. From a preliminary screening, restaurant food waste emerged as the most suitable feedstock compared to bakery waste, textile…