{"publication_status":"published","has_accepted_license":"1","_id":"1732","status":"public","publication":"Polymers","title":"Silica Hydrogels as Entrapment Material for Microalgae","user_id":"245590","volume":14,"urn":"urn:nbn:de:hbz:bi10-17326","publisher":"MDPI AG","author":[{"id":"216742","orcid":"0000-0002-0358-8554","first_name":"Sarah Vanessa","last_name":"Homburg","full_name":"Homburg, Sarah Vanessa"},{"id":"201870","orcid":"0000-0003-1771-407X","first_name":"Anant","last_name":"Patel","full_name":"Patel, Anant"}],"department":[{"_id":"103"}],"publication_identifier":{"eissn":["2073-4360"]},"abstract":[{"text":"Despite being a promising feedstock for food, feed, chemicals, and biofuels, microalgal production processes are still uneconomical due to slow growth rates, costly media, problematic downstreaming processes, and rather low cell densities. Immobilization via entrapment constitutes a promising tool to overcome these drawbacks of microalgal production and enables continuous processes with protection against shear forces and contaminations. In contrast to biopolymer gels, inorganic silica hydrogels are highly transparent and chemically, mechanically, thermally, and biologically stable. Since the first report on entrapment of living cells in silica hydrogels in 1989, efforts were made to increase the biocompatibility by omitting organic solvents during hydrolysis, removing toxic by-products, and replacing detrimental mineral acids or bases for pH adjustment. Furthermore, methods were developed to decrease the stiffness in order to enable proliferation of entrapped cells. This review aims to provide an overview of studied entrapment methods in silica hydrogels, specifically for rather sensitive microalgae.\r\n                ","lang":"eng"}],"tmp":{"short":"CC BY (4.0)","image":"/images/cc_by.png","name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)","legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode"},"file":[{"success":1,"creator":"shomburg","file_size":1890659,"file_name":"polymers-14-01391-v2-1.pdf","access_level":"open_access","file_id":"1739","relation":"main_file","content_type":"application/pdf","date_created":"2022-03-30T13:18:30Z","date_updated":"2022-03-30T13:18:30Z"}],"file_date_updated":"2022-03-30T13:18:30Z","year":"2022","article_type":"review","date_created":"2022-03-30T10:47:59Z","citation":{"bibtex":"@article{Homburg_Patel_2022, title={Silica Hydrogels as Entrapment Material for Microalgae}, volume={14}, DOI={<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.3390/polym14071391\">10.3390/polym14071391</a>}, number={71391}, journal={Polymers}, publisher={MDPI AG}, author={Homburg, Sarah Vanessa and Patel, Anant}, year={2022} }","mla":"Homburg, Sarah Vanessa, and Anant Patel. “Silica Hydrogels as Entrapment Material for Microalgae.” <i>Polymers</i>, vol. 14, no. 7, 1391, MDPI AG, 2022, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.3390/polym14071391\">10.3390/polym14071391</a>.","ama":"Homburg SV, Patel A. Silica Hydrogels as Entrapment Material for Microalgae. <i>Polymers</i>. 2022;14(7). doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.3390/polym14071391\">10.3390/polym14071391</a>","short":"S.V. Homburg, A. Patel, Polymers 14 (2022).","alphadin":"<span style=\"font-variant:small-caps;\">Homburg, Sarah Vanessa</span> ; <span style=\"font-variant:small-caps;\">Patel, Anant</span>: Silica Hydrogels as Entrapment Material for Microalgae. In: <i>Polymers</i> Bd. 14, MDPI AG (2022), Nr. 7","chicago":"Homburg, Sarah Vanessa, and Anant Patel. “Silica Hydrogels as Entrapment Material for Microalgae.” <i>Polymers</i> 14, no. 7 (2022). <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.3390/polym14071391\">https://doi.org/10.3390/polym14071391</a>.","apa":"Homburg, S. V., &#38; Patel, A. (2022). Silica Hydrogels as Entrapment Material for Microalgae. <i>Polymers</i>, <i>14</i>(7). <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.3390/polym14071391\">https://doi.org/10.3390/polym14071391</a>","ieee":"S. V. Homburg and A. Patel, “Silica Hydrogels as Entrapment Material for Microalgae,” <i>Polymers</i>, vol. 14, no. 7, 2022."},"doi":"10.3390/polym14071391","quality_controlled":"1","oa":"1","issue":"7","funded_apc":"1","date_updated":"2024-03-27T14:01:14Z","article_number":"1391","intvolume":"        14","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"main_file_link":[{"url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/polym14071391","open_access":"1"}],"type":"journal_article"}