Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering
Deep Eutectic Solvents: Fundamentals and Emerging Applications

Presents a comprehensive account on the fundamentals of DESs, their intriguing physicochemical properties, and the recent advances in DESs applications in emerging scientific areas

Ashish Pandey (Edited by), Bhagyashree Tiwari (Edited by), Ashok Pandey (Edited by), Suzana Yusup (Edited by)

9780323999052, Elsevier Science

Paperback / softback, published 15 September 2022

444 pages, Approx. 100 illustrations
23.5 x 19 x 2.8 cm, 0.45 kg

Deep eutectic solvents represent the newest addition among all other non-conventional and alternate solvent systems. Deep Eutectic Solvent Fund Emerging Applications provides detailed insights on these neoteric solvents, their synthesis methods, types, physicochemical properties, and sustainable applications in emerging scientific areas. The book follows a mechanistic approach on understanding the role of DESs as sustainable media for CO2 capture, biomass pretreatment, as catalysts, as reaction media for material synthesis, cross coupling reactions, templates for drug delivery, etc. The book offers a springboard for encouraging vital discussions and inspiring further innovations in the field of environmentally benign eutectic solvent systems.

1. Deep Eutectic Solvents – An Introduction
2. Design strategies for synthesis of Deep Eutectic Solvents
3. Advances in Understanding the Applications of Deep Eutectic Solvents in Gas Capture
4. Green Solvent credentials and critical analysis of Deep Eutectic Solvents
5. Deep Eutectic Solvents vs Ionic Liquids: Similarities and Differences
6. Role of Deep Eutectic Solvents as Pretreatment Media for Biomass transformation
7. Role of Deep Eutectic Solvents in Designing Biocatalytic Processes
8. Role of Deep Eutectic Solvents in Membrane-based Seperation Processes
9. Role of Deep Eutectic Solvents in Process Simulations in Extraction Operations
10. Role of Deep Eutectic Solvents as Decontaminants
11. Role of Deep Eutectic Solvents in Cross-coupling Reactions as Neoteric Reaction Medium
12. Significance of Deep Eutectic Solvents as Efficient Systems for Drug Discovery, Drug Delivery and Pharmaceutical Applications
13. Role of Deep Eutectic Solvents in CO2 Mitigation Technologies
14. Deep Eutectic Solvents in Desulphurization of Fuel Oil
15. Regulatory Aspects for Deep Eutectic Solvents Applications
16. Impact of Deep Eutectic Solvents to Health, Safety and Environment

Subject Areas: Biochemical engineering [TC]