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Microbial Biomaterials and Their Industrial Applications

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Microbial products for future industrialization

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The present era is in quest of sustainable utility and management of natural resources. Biomaterial in origin is referred as naturally synthesized from living sources like plant and animal and even from microbes and agrowaste utilization too, which is primarily designed to augment, replace, or repair body tissues or organ. Modern concept of biomaterial encompasses a wider approach of application from food to fashion, architecture to agriculture, environment to industry, biofuel to “biofaber, automotive, nanostructures, and so on and so forth. Besides plant and animal sources, a myriad types of microbial biomaterial synthesis are dependent on a unique microbial metabolic and enzyme activity, genetic diversity, and biodegradability nature of the material itself. Besides this, genetically engineered microbes are not far behind for the efficient application in sectors like liquid fuel, functional biomaterials, nanoscale structure, biocomposites, etc. A diverse group of microbial sources like bacteria, fungi, algae, actinomycetes, yeast, etc. as biomaterial agents are widely exploited nowadays to meet the targets of sustainable development goal in abovementioned practices and so on to be mentioned. The present chapter focuses on a detailed overview of basic understanding of biomaterials, categorization of it including source, mode of operation, and involvement of microbial metabolism in usage of substrates and its heterogenous dimension in areas of cement, plastic, drug-delivery carrier, carriers of few important biomolecules in medicine or edible coating in food product packaging practices, etc.

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    Chitra Bhattacharya & Mousumi Das

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Bhattacharya, C., Das, M. (2023). Microbial Biomaterials and Their Industrial Applications. In: Sarkar, A., Ahmed, I.A. (eds) Microbial products for future industrialization. Interdisciplinary Biotechnological Advances. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-1737-2_15

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