Information Package / Course Catalogue
Biopolymers
Course Code: BİO571
Course Type: Area Elective
Couse Group: Second Cycle (Master's Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 2
Prt.: 2
Credit: 3
Lab: 0
ECTS: 8
Objectives of the Course

The aim of the course is to give information about appropriate media, temperature, pH, oxygen, inoculum time of various microorganisms, biopolymers and precursors having a prominent place in industry, chemical structure and synthesis mechanisms, mechanical and physical properties and their importance for use in industry

Course Content

Synthesis and purifying of xanthan, alginates, bacterial cellulose, cyanophenyl, Poly (gamma-glutamic acid), levan, hyaluronic acid, polyhydroxyalkanoates, microbial exopolysaccharide and organic acids; applications in industry; industrial production methods

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