Microbial Surfactants in Pharmaceuticals and Cosmetics
About this ebook
The book focuses on biosurfactant production from various bacteria, diversity of biosurfactant producing bacteria, and the industrial need of biosurfactants. Fields such as pharmacy, medicine, and cosmetics are covered. It is presented in an easy-to-understand manner, and is well illustrated, and comprises protocols and recent data on the production, formulation and commercialization and other aspects of biosurfactants and bioemulsifiers.
About the author
R.Z. Sayyed is a Professor of Microbiology having 20 years of teaching and research experience. He is Associate Editor of Environmental Sustainability, Guest Editor of Sustainability, Frontier journals, and Academic Editor of PeerJ. He has authored over 333 research papers in high IF international journals and edited 32 books with leading publishers. He has been listed among 2% of highly cited researchers consecutively for three years by and Stanford University.
Shilpa Mujumdar is the Vice Principal (Research) and Head of Microbiology at Modern College, Pune, India. She has over 17 years of teaching and research experience. She has 4 patents (Indian and US) to her credit and has authored over 30 peer reviewed research papers and 8 book chapters. Dr. Mujumdar has delivered many invited talks in several conferences.
