Skip to main content

Advertisement

Log in

Cyclodextrin-enabled green environmental biotechnologies

  • Review Article
  • Published:
Environmental Science and Pollution Research Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

Most of the organic compounds contaminating the environment can form inclusion complexes with cyclodextrins resulting in enhanced solubility (a benefit in soil remediation) or just the opposite: reduced mobility by sorption (a benefit in wastewater treatment). Combining biotechnologies with cyclodextrin, a renewable and biodegradable material, green environmental technologies of high efficiency were developed. For instance, the cyclodextrin-enabled soil washing/flushing technologies combined with bioremediation have been demonstrated in full-scale field experiments. The efficiency of tertiary wastewater treatment by sorption of non-biodegradable xenobiotics, such as residual pharmaceutics, was proved. The biofilm formation in fouling processes can be prevented or reduced either by applying cyclodextrin-based coatings or by manipulation of quorum sensing (bacterial communication) via capturing signal molecules.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Fig. 1
Fig. 2
Fig. 3
Fig. 4

Similar content being viewed by others

References

Download references

Availability of data and materials

Not applicable

Funding

The studies were supported by Hungarian grants (BIOREMEDIATION NKFP-3/002/2001, CD-FILTER TECH_08-A4/2-2008-0161, Quorum Sensing OTKA-K-125093-2017).

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Contributions

Both authors contributed to the study conception and design. Material preparation, data collection, and analysis were performed by Éva Fenyvesi. Tamás Sohajda commented on previous versions of the manuscript. Both the authors read and approved the final manuscript.

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Éva Fenyvesi.

Ethics declarations

Ethics approval and consent to participate

Not applicable.

Consent to publish

The manuscript was not submitted to any other journals. Original work: a review.

Competing interests

The authors declare no competing interests.

Disclaimer

No data, text, or theories by others are presented as if they were the author’s own.

Additional information

Responsible editor: Santiago V. Luis

Publisher’s note

Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Fenyvesi, É., Sohajda, T. Cyclodextrin-enabled green environmental biotechnologies. Environ Sci Pollut Res 29, 20085–20097 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-18176-w

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-18176-w

Keywords

Navigation