Drastic reduction in the use of synthetic surfactants with power from microorganisms
Friday, October 3, 2014 - 08:20
in Physics & Chemistry
Researchers at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, in collaboration with Kaneka Corporation, have discovered that a cyclic peptide (surfactin) produced from Bacillus subtilis (B. subtilis) can reduce the necessary amount of synthetic surfactants to approximately one hundredth.