New Trends in Industrial Biocatalysis, 2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

This Special ssue is a continuation of the previous successful Special Issue “New Trends in Industrial Biocatalysis”.

Today, industrial biocatalysis is particularly important for industrial biotechnology because it uses environmentally friendly, cost-effective, and sustainable processes. The improvement of these processes involves the screening and isolation of novel biocatalysts with new properties and capacities, which can be undertaken by metagenomic approaches or classical isolation techniques, as well as the improvement of their performance by emerging techniques such as the production of immobilized and co-immobilized preparations on new matrices, the enhancement of enzymatic capacities through mutagenesis and directed evolution, accompanied by in silico prediction studies and structural elucidation of biomolecules. Other areas of interest comprise the discovery of new reactions/products or the optimization of existing ones by the use of non-conventional substrates and/or solvents, with applications in the pharmaceutical and food industries as prominent examples.

This Special Issue, “New Trends in Industrial Biocatalysis, 2nd Edition”, intends to compile the most recent developments, techniques, and practices in the field of industrial biocatalysis. We encourage scientists working in biocatalysis, enzymatic biotechnology, and extremophilic enzymes applied in biocatalysis to publish their recent findings and results in areas such as enzyme, protein, and medium engineering for the improvement or establishment of biocatalytic processes; new nanomaterials, nanofibers, polymers, and mesoporous materials such as MOFs to immobilize enzymes and improve catalytic functions; novel modifications in immobilization solid support; new biocatalytic strategies to treat effluents; new strategies for cofactor recycling; and the design and use of flow reactors or solid-state reactors in biocatalysis.

Prof. Dr. Rosa María Oliart-Ros
Prof. Dr. María Guadalupe Sánchez-Otero
Guest Editors

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• industrial biocatalysis
• extremozymes
• immobilization
• metal–organic frameworks
• covalent–organic frameworks
• protein engineering
• mutagenesis

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