Biosurfactants: Production: Properties: Applications

Part 1 Production: Biosynthetic Mechanisms of Low Molecular Weight Surfactants and Their Precursor Molecules, Rolf K. Hommel and Colin Ratledge; Production of Biosurfactants, Jitendra D. Desai and Anjana J. Desai; Prospects and Limits for the Production of Biosurfactants Using Immobilized Biocatalysts, Martin Siemann and Fritz Wagner; Lipopeptide Production by Bacillus licheniformis, Katharina Jenny, V. Deltrieu, and 0. Kappeli; Integrated Process for Continuous Rhamnolipid Biosynthesis, Thomas Gruber et al; Production, Properties, and Practical Applications of Fungal Polysaccharides, Walter Steiner, Dietmar Haltrich, and Robert M. Lafferty; Bioconversion of Oils and Sugars to Glycolipids, Siegmund Lang and Fritz Wagner; Part 2 Properties: Genetics of Surface-Active Compounds, Jakob Reiser et al; Biological Activities of Biosurfactants, Siegmund Lang and Fritz Wagner; The Biophysics of Microbial Surfactants: Growth on Insoluble Substrates, Donald F Gerson; Surface Properties and Function of Alveolar and Airway Surfactant, Samuel Schurch, Marianne Geiser, and Peter Gehr; Microbial Lipopolysaccharides, Lina Cloutier and Naim Kosaric; Part 3 Applications: Factors Influencing the Economics of Biosurfactants, Catherine N. Mulligan and Bernard F Gibbs; Biosurfactants for Cosmetics; Vaclav Klekner and Naim Kosaric; Biosurfactants from Marine Microorganisms, Siegmund Lang and Fritz Wagner; Biosurfactants in Food Applications, Joran Velikonja and Naim Kosaric; Biosurfactants for Environmental Control, Reinhard Muller-Hurtig et al.;