Recently, our lab succeeded to produce bio-based glycolipid bolaamphiphile on a gram scale by using the genetically-engineered S. bombicola strain Δat Δsble Δfao1 (Van Renterghem et al., Biotechnol. Bioeng., 2018, 115, 1195–1206). This article show that the bio-based glyco-bolaamphiphile readily forms a hydrogel in water at room temperature, and that the…
Coming soon: MOOC
In 2019, a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) will be kicked off, in which InBio.be is participating. The MOOC is organized by Bio Innovation Growth mega Cluster (BIG-Cluster). The BIG-Cluster aims at building a coordinated education and training initiative with focus on…
A research article about bolaamphiphilic sophorolipids is published in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
Currently, there is a lot of interest in bolaamphiphiles because of the unusual architecture created by such molecules as they possess not one but two hydrophilic heads, coupled by a hydrophobic linker. Only a limited amount of bolaamhiphiles can be produced microbially.…
New article: Complex coacervation of natural sophorolipid bolaamphiphile micelles with cationic polyelectrolytes
A new article was published in the journal ‘Green Chemistry’. Herein, complex coacervation of micelles from a bolaform sophorolipid biosurfactant with oppositely charged cationic polyelectrolytes (i.e., chitosan oligosaccharide lactate, poly (L-lysine) and poly(allylamine)) was investigated. You can find the article…
New project ‘AppliSurf’ starts on the 1st of August!
On the 1st of August, a new project will start at InBio.be that focuses on expanding the functional portfolio of biosurfactants. The research partners that will contribute to this project are Ghent University (Faculty Bioscience Engineering InBio.be, Faculty Green Chemistry…