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ClearEco-Friendly Biocatalysts: Laccase Applications, Innovations, and Future Directions in Environmental Remediation
This review examines how laccase enzymes, naturally produced by fungi and other organisms, can be used as eco-friendly biocatalysts for breaking down environmental pollutants. Researchers highlight advances in enzyme immobilization and nanotechnology that have improved laccase stability and reusability for treating dyes, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, and microplastic additives. The study explores hybrid systems that combine laccase with other treatment technologies to achieve more complete pollutant breakdown.
Biological Removal of Dyes from Wastewater: A Review of Its Efficiency and Advances
This review compares the efficiency of bacteria, algae, fungi, and yeasts for biological removal of dyes from wastewater, finding that mixed bacterial-fungal cultures generally outperform pure cultures. The authors identify genetic engineering and enzyme immobilization as promising advances for improving biodegradation rates but note inconsistent performance across dye types as a key limitation.
Catalytic and Physicochemical Evaluation of a TiO2/ZnO/Laccase Biocatalytic System: Application in the Decolorization of Azo and Anthraquinone Dyes
Researchers developed a biocatalytic system combining titanium dioxide, zinc oxide, and the enzyme laccase to break down textile dyes in wastewater. The system successfully decolorized two types of synthetic dyes used in fabric manufacturing. While not directly about microplastics, synthetic dye wastewater from textiles also carries microfibers, and treatments that address both problems together are environmentally valuable.
Enzymes in the Removal of Harmful Substances: The Potential of Biotechnology in Environmental Protection
This review examines the potential of enzymes as sustainable, highly specific tools for removing harmful environmental pollutants including pesticides, pharmaceuticals, heavy metals, dyes, and microplastics under mild conditions without generating toxic by-products. The authors highlight innovations in enzyme immobilisation, microbial consortia, and hybrid technologies as strategies to enhance efficiency and broaden the practical applicability of biotechnology-based environmental remediation.
Potential of Laccase as a Tool for Biodegradation of Wastewater Micropollutants
This review evaluates the potential of laccase enzymes, primarily from fungi and bacteria, to break down micropollutants in wastewater including pharmaceuticals, pesticides, and endocrine-disrupting compounds. Researchers found that laccase-based treatments offer an environmentally friendly alternative to conventional chemical methods for removing these contaminants. The study also discusses how immobilizing laccases on support materials can improve their stability and reusability in water treatment systems.
Microbial Immobilized Enzyme Biocatalysts for Multipollutant Mitigation: Harnessing Nature’s Toolkit for Environmental Sustainability
This review examines how enzymes from microorganisms can be anchored onto support materials to create reusable tools for breaking down environmental pollutants, including microplastics, pesticides, and pharmaceutical chemicals. Researchers found that immobilizing these enzymes significantly improves their stability and allows them to be used repeatedly, making cleanup processes more cost-effective. The approach represents a promising green technology for tackling multiple types of pollution simultaneously.
Immobilized enzyme/microorganism complexes for degradation of microplastics: A review of recent advances, feasibility and future prospects
This review examined advances in immobilized enzyme and microorganism complexes for microplastic degradation, evaluating various nanomaterial supports and highlighting the feasibility and future prospects of enzymatic approaches to removing microplastics from the environment.
Advances in immobilized enzyme systems for enhanced microplastic biodegradation: A review
This review examines immobilised enzyme systems as enhanced tools for microplastic biodegradation, covering how immobilisation on various carriers improves enzyme stability, reusability, and cost-effectiveness compared to free enzymes. It evaluates progress toward industrial-scale bioremediation of plastic pollution.
Recent Advances in Enzyme Immobilisation Strategies: An Overview of Techniques and Composite Carriers
This review covers recent advances in enzyme immobilization, a technique where enzymes are attached to solid materials to make them reusable and more stable for industrial applications. Researchers describe various methods including adsorption, cross-linking, and entrapment, along with emerging composite carrier materials that improve performance. While not focused on microplastics specifically, the technology has applications in biodegradation of plastics and environmental remediation.
Nanobiocatalysts and its Applications: A Review Article
This review covers nanobiocatalysts — enzymes attached to nanostructures — and their applications in biotechnology, including potential uses in breaking down plastic pollution. Nanobiocatalysts offer improved stability and efficiency for industrial enzymes, including those being explored for plastic biodegradation.
Photocatalytic Degradation of Food and Juices Dyes via Photocatalytic Nanomaterials Synthesized through Green Synthetic Route: A Systematic Review
This systematic review highlights how green-synthesized nanoparticles can effectively degrade toxic food dyes through photocatalysis. These eco-friendly nanomaterials offer a promising alternative to conventional chemical methods for removing harmful colorants from food industry wastewater.
A Review on Photocatalysis Used For Wastewater Treatment: Dye Degradation
Researchers reviewed metal oxide-based photocatalysts — materials that use light to break down pollutants — for treating dye-contaminated wastewater, highlighting how rare-earth doping and nanocomposite design can overcome the limitations of standard titanium dioxide catalysts and improve degradation efficiency under visible light.
Recent Advances in Nitride Composites for Effective Removal of Organic Dyes in Wastewater Treatment
This review examined the use of nitride-based composite materials for removing organic dyes from industrial wastewater. Researchers found that these materials show strong potential for efficient and selective removal of toxic dye compounds through photocatalysis and adsorption, offering a promising approach for treating contaminated industrial water.
Microbial degradation of dyes: An overview
Researchers reviewed microbial degradation of synthetic dyes — major industrial wastewater pollutants — summarizing the bacterial, fungal, and genetically engineered organism pathways involved in azo dye breakdown, and discussing factors such as pH, temperature, and co-substrate availability that govern decolorization efficiency.
Exploring trends of wastewater treatment by using nano-materials and their composites with bio-polymer
This review examines trends in wastewater treatment using nanomaterials and their composites with biopolymers, analyzing techniques including nanofiltration, adsorption, disinfection, and bioremediation for removing pollutants such as heavy metals, biological oxygen demand, and toxic compounds from industrial effluents.
Recent Advances in the Remediation of Textile-Dye-Containing Wastewater: Prioritizing Human Health and Sustainable Wastewater Treatment
This review examines how the textile industry is a major source of wastewater containing harmful dyes and chemicals that threaten water quality and human health. It evaluates sustainable treatment approaches including bio-adsorbents, membrane technology, and advanced oxidation processes for cleaning textile wastewater and recovering useful materials.
Recent Advances in Efficient Photocatalytic Degradation Approaches for Azo Dyes
This review summarizes recent advances in photocatalytic degradation of azo dyes from textile wastewater, examining the efficiency of various semiconductor photocatalysts and the reaction conditions needed for effective treatment.
The Role of Biocomposites and Nanocomposites in Eliminating Organic Contaminants from Effluents
Not relevant to microplastics — this review evaluates biocomposite and nanocomposite sorbents for removing heavy metals, dyes, and hydrocarbons from industrial wastewater, comparing adsorption mechanisms and recyclability.
Towards oxidoreductase-based processes for the removal of antibiotics from wastewater
This review examines enzyme-based approaches for removing antibiotic residues from wastewater, focusing on oxidoreductase enzymes like laccases and peroxidases. Researchers found that these biological treatments can effectively transform several major classes of antibiotics under controlled conditions. The study highlights the potential of enzymatic treatment as a sustainable complement to conventional wastewater processing for reducing antibiotic contamination in water systems.
Nanomaterials for Microplastic Removal from Wastewater: Current State of the Art Nanomaterials and Future Prospects
This review surveys recent advances in using nanomaterials to remove microplastics and nanoplastics from wastewater, since conventional treatment plants struggle to capture these tiny particles. Researchers evaluate different nanomaterial approaches including magnetic nanoparticles, photocatalysts, and membrane technologies. The study identifies promising strategies but notes that challenges around scalability, cost, and potential environmental risks of the nanomaterials themselves still need to be addressed.