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Synergy of microtechnology and biotechnology: microreactors as an effective tool for biotransformation processes

Despite the fact that microreactors have been present for more than 40 years now and that their potential has been extensively exploited in chemical synthesis, analytics and screening, to date very few biocatalytic processes have been explored in microreactors. It is claimed that enzymatic microreactor technology is exactly in the same place where chemical microreactors were 15 years ago. But the general opinion is that the efforts devoted to the research of micro- enzymatic reactors will inaugurate a new breakthrough in bio-based processing. The aim of this review is to explore the synergy between microtechnology, meanly microreactors, and biotechnology and to scope to its potential, opportunities, challenges and the future application of technology in biotechnology.

microreactor ; biotechnology ; enzyme ; immobilization ; biocatalysis

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