Algae Materials

Applications Benefitting Health

1st Edition - February 22, 2023
Imprint: Academic Press
Editors: K. Arunkumar, A. Arun, Rathinam Raja, Ramasamy Palaniappan
Language: English
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Algae Materials: Applications Benefitting Health offers a comprehensive analysis of biosensors, algae materials for clinical applications, algae polymers, proteins and pigments, algae for food applications and packaging, blue economy, algae forming, cosmetics, and more. The book enlists the less explored areas of algal bioproducts, including how the application of genetic engineering is currently used to enhance bioproducts. Even though there are numerous reviews and scattered documents available, there are some recent fields yet to explore.

Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
Dedication
List of contributors
Chapter 1. An introduction to algae materials
1. Introduction
2. Algae materials for advanced biofuel production
3. Valorizing algae biomass as materials for bioproducts and commercial application
4. Algae materials for food and food packaging
5. Superfood (algae)—in future
6. Advanced instruments in algae materials: applications and characterization
7. Advancement in algae cultivation techniques
8. Expanding algal polymers, proteins, and pigments as materials for industrial applications
9. Algae for blue economy and blue carbon materials and their application in various fields
10. Algae and farming applications—present and future scenario
11. Algae materials for quorum sensing applications
12. Algae-derived hard steel and building materials and application
13. Algae-derived materials for applications in automobile industries
14. Algae-derived biosensor materials and their applications
15. Algae materials for bionanopesticides: nanoparticles and composites
16. Algae material for textile industries
17. Algae nanomaterials and nanostructures
18. Algae material for drugs and drug delivery
19. Algae materials for clinical applications
20. Algae material for cosmetics and cosmeceuticals
21. Algal lipids, lipidomics, and biosurfactants
22. Positive and negative environmental impacts on algae
23. Genetic engineering of algae material: merits and demerits
24. Perspectives of algae materials 2.O
25. Algae biorefinery: strategies for a sustainable industry
26. Algae material for the development of aquaculture feeds
27. Algae and bioremediation
Chapter 2. Algae materials for advanced biofuel production through the cost-effective process and integration of nanocatalysts
1. Introduction
2. Biofuel
Chapter 3. Valorizing algae biomass as materials for bioproducts and commercial applications
1. Introduction
2. Biochar from algae
3. Biofuels from algae
4. Carotenoids from algae
5. Conclusions
Chapter 4. Algae materials for food and food packaging
1. Algae for food
2. Algae for food packaging
3. Conclusion
Chapter 5. Microalgae as superfood
1. Introduction
2. Superfoods
3. Microalgae strains with potential
4. Microalgae superfoods: issues to consider
5. Conclusion
Chapter 6. Advanced instruments in algae materials: applications and characterization of algae-based nanoparticles for cancer therapies
1. Introduction
2. Macroalgae as nanoparticle factories
3. Macroalgae-based nanoparticles as cancer therapies
4. Associated toxicity
5. Challenges for the successful implementation of nanoparticles as therapeutical tools
Chapter 7. Advanced techniques for cultivating algae with regard to the industrialization
1. Introduction
2. Cultivation classic techniques
3. Cultivation innovative techniques
4. Conclusion
Chapter 8. Algae-based bioplastics: Expanding algal polymers as materials for industrial applications
1. Introduction
2. Overview of seaweeds as renewable sources of biopolymers for industrial applications
3. Effect of seaweed biopolymers incorporation in biofilm
4. Bioplastics for a sustainable and circular economy
5. Conclusions
Chapter 9. Blue economy and blue carbon materials applications in various fields with respect to marine algae
1. Introduction
2. Blue carbon and its source in the marine environment
3. Applications of blue carbon in different fields
4. Conclusion
Chapter 10. Applications of bacterial quorum sensing in algal biotechnology
1. Introduction
2. Biological applications
3. Environmental applications
4. Conclusions
Chapter 11. Algae-derived materials and pathways for applications in the automobile industries
1. Introduction
2. Algal biomass production
3. Recent advances in algal biomass production
4. Challenges
5. Perspectives
6. Algae mass-scale production
7. Conversion methods used for biofuel production
8. Biochemical process
9. Anaerobic digestion
10. Fermentation
11. Photobiological hydrogen
12. Thermochemical process
13. Torrefaction
14. Pyrolysis
15. Gasification
16. Hydrothermal process
17. Chemical process
18. Algae biodiesel as engine fuel
19. Conclusions
Chapter 12. Algae-derived biosensor materials and their applications
1. Introduction
2. Enzymes
Chapter 13. Algae materials for bionanopesticides: nanoparticles and composites
1. Introduction
2. Nanomaterials as pesticides
3. Nanocomposite to control plant pathogens
4. Conclusion
Chapter 14. Algae materials for textile industries
1. Introduction
2. Classification of dyes
3. Conclusion
Chapter 15. Algae nanomaterials and nanostructures
1. Introduction
2. Algae-based nanoparticles and nanostructures
3. Limitations and challenges
4. Summary points
Chapter 16. Algae materials for drugs and drug delivery
1. Introduction
2. Algae's bioactive substances
3. Algae and their uses in the pharmaceutical industry
4. Drug delivery and algaes
5. Conclusions
Chapter 17. Algae material for clinical applications
1. Introduction
2. Tissue engineering
3. Drug delivery
4. Wound dressing
5. Conclusion
Chapter 18. Algae materials for cosmetics and cosmeceuticals
1. Introduction
2. Literature review
3. Objectives
4. Experimental
5. Results and discussion
6. Conclusion
Chapter 19. Algal lipids, lipidomics, and biosurfactants
1. Introduction
2. Algal lipids
3. Biosynthesis of triacylglycerol in algae
4. Enhancement of algal lipids
5. Environmental influences on algal lipids
6. Extraction of algal lipids
7. Algal lipidomics
8. Algae as biosurfactant
9. Conclusion
Chapter 20. Positive and negative environmental impacts on algae
1. Introduction
2. Algal cellular components
3. Environmental factors and their impacts on algae
4. Light
5. Temperature
6. pH
7. Salinity
8. Nutrients availability
9. Carbon source
10. Nitrogen
11. Phosphorous
12. Contamination and leaks
13. Conclusion
Chapter 21. Genetic engineering of algae material: merits and demerits
1. Introduction
2. Genetic engineering: a brief history
3. Algal biology and genetic engineering
4. Genetic engineering of algal genome for tuning increased metabolite production
5. Recent advances in algal genetic engineering
6. Applications of genetically engineered algae
7. Merits of genetic engineering in microalgae
8. Demerits of genetic engineering in microalgae
9. Conclusion
Chapter 22. Perspective of algae materials 2.0
1. Introduction
2. Algae-based materials
3. Bioplastics in the pharmaceutical industry
4. Biopolymers
5. Algal-based fuels
6. Algae pigments and pharmaceutical use
7. Electricity production from algae
8. Algae-based bioactive compounds
9. Perspectives of algae materials in biotechnology
10. The perspective of phycobiliprotein algae material for biomedical research
11. Algae products
12. Synthetic polymers
13. Future perspectives of algae-based materials
14. Conclusion
Chapter 23. Algae biorefinery: strategies for a sustainable industry
1. Introduction
2. Biorefinery in cyanobacteria
3. Biorefinery in microalgae
4. Biorefinery in seaweed
5. Challenges and future perspectives
Chapter 24. Algae materials: an alternative feed ingredients for the sustainable aquaculture
1. Preamble
2. Scope and objectives
3. Culture methods of microalgae
4. Microalgae used as a fishmeal replacement
5. Benefits and future outcomes
Chapter 25. Phycoremediation: algae-based bioremediation
1. Introduction
2. Factors affecting biosorption
3. Effect of pH
4. Effect of temperature
5. Effect of contact time
6. Effect of initial metal concentration
7. Effect of biosorbent dosage
8. Effect of competing ions
9. Microalgal bioremediation
10. Macroalgal bioremediation
11. Conclusion
Index

K. Arunkumar

Dr.K. Arunkumar obtained his M.Sc. and Philosophy in Botany from Bharathidasan University and Ph.D. from University of Madras, India during 1999. Having specialization in physiology and extraction chemistry, he worked in Rubber Research Institute of India during 1997-1999. Later, he has joined as an Assistant Professor College teacher in the year 1999 since then he is concentrating on applied researches of algal diversity, biology and biochemistry. He has published 67 research articles of which 46 are Scopus indexed and guided 6 Ph.D’s by attracting grants from Government of India funding Agencies (UGC/DST/SERB). He offers 4 credits Massive Open Online (MOOC) course Biomass Characterization for Postgraduates through UGC-SWAYAM portal. Currently he is heading the Department of Plant Sciences and Dean of student welfare, Central University of Kerala, India

Affiliations and expertise

heading the Department of Plant Sciences and Dean of student welfare, Central University of Kerala, India

A. Arun

Dr. A. Arun, Professor and Head, Department of Microbiology, Alagappa University, Karaikudi, Tamilnadu, India. His research team is working on Bioplastic, Bioenergy, Microbial fuel cells, Bioremediation, Biomass, and Bioactive compounds. He has vast experience related to the said field by publishing several research articles and book chapters in reputed peer-reviewed journals. In addition, he received many major research projects and one consultancy project, including one Indo-China project funded under SPARC by MHRD, India

Affiliations and expertise

Professor and Head, Department of Microbiology, Alagappa University, Karaikudi, Tamilnadu, India

Rathinam Raja

Dr.Rathinam Raja is working as a Professor in Sree Balaji Medical College and Hospital (SBMCH)-BIHER, Chromepet, Chennai, India. He pursued his Ph.D. in microalgae at University of Madras on 2004. He also did his Post-Doctoral Research at IIT Madras. He also worked as a Lead Scientist at Aquatic Energy LLC, Louisiana for couple of years. Previously he worked in Taiwan, South Korea and Portugal. He has published 32 international articles, 14 book chapters and edited a book

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Professor in Sree Balaji Medical College and Hospital (SBMCH)-BIHER, Chromepet, Chennai, India.

Ramasamy Palaniappan

Professor Palaniappan Ramasamy educated at the University of Madras and obtained his Ph.D. in Zoology (Parasitology). Later he continued his post-doctoral training at Queens University Belfast in Northern Ireland (1982-84), and was then appointed as lecturer and then promoted in 1997 as Professor in Zoology followed as Professor and Head of the Department of Biotechnology between 2004 and 2012. Ramasamy took several Academic and Research Institutions in India including the position as the “Vice-Chancellor” of the prestigious university, Alagappa University-Karaikudi. He established the "Higher Education Link Program sponsored by the British Councils from the UK and India on exchange programs in Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics Infrastructures. Since 2015, Dr. Ramasamy is serving as, Director of Research at Sree Balaji Medical College and Hospital, BIHER-India. He published nearly 100 significant publications and has a patent on "new antiviral agent from a plant”

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Director of Research at Sree Balaji Medical College and Hospital, BIHER-India.

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