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Magnetic particles in algae biotechnology: recent updates

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Magnetic nano- and microparticles have been successfully used in many areas of algae biotechnology, especially for harvesting of algal biomass, separation of algal biologically active compounds, immobilization of algal cells, removal of important xenobiotics using magnetically modified algae, or for the preparation of magnetic catalysts; alternatively, algae have been employed for the production of magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles. In this short review paper, the relevant data published in the period 2016–2019 are summarized.

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Acknowledgments

This work was carried out in the frame of the COST Actions ES1408 “European network for algal-bioproducts (EUALGAE)” and CA18238 “European transdisciplinary networking platform for marine biotechnology.”

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The research was supported by the project LTC17020 (Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic) and by ERDF project “Development of pre-applied research in nanotechnology and biotechnology” (No. CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/17_048/0007323).

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Safarik, I., Baldikova, E., Prochazkova, J. et al. Magnetic particles in algae biotechnology: recent updates. J Appl Phycol 32, 1743–1753 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10811-020-02109-0

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