Miniaturization in Biocatalysis

Miniaturization in Biocatalysis

The use of biocatalysts for the production of both consumer goods and building blocks for chemical synthesis is consistently gaining relevance. A significant contribution for recent advances towards further implementation of enzymes and whole cells is related to the developments in miniature reactor technology and insights into flow behavior. Due to the high level of parallelization and reduced...

Miniaturization in Analytical Chemistry

Miniaturization is rapidly growing, with novel ideas emerging in recent years. Like other fields, analytical systems have been affected by this new technology. Concretely, the capacity to carry out laboratory operations on a small scale using miniaturized devices is very appealing. Micro total analysis systems (mTAS), also called lab-on-a-chip, have renewed interest in scaling laws in the last ...

Miniaturization in LC – MS

2 Introduction In the April edition of this magazine1 Ron Majors, in his annual report on new columns and accessories from the Pittsburgh conference, reported how at the 2002 conference the largest number of product introductions were for biomolecule separations and for liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (LC–MS). He went on to state that speciality HPLC columns for chiral compounds, biomol...

Whole organism biocatalysis.

The use of biocatalysts for the industrial synthesis of chemicals has been attracting much attention as an environment-friendly synthetic method. Microbial cells play a leading role in 'chemo-enzymatic synthesis' because of their great diversity. Several microbes with unique catalytic abilities have been found through intensive screening and put to practical use. Besides, advanced molecular bio...

Analytical miniaturization and nanotechnologies.