Publication detail

Nanostructured Hybrid BioBots for Beer Brewing

HORMIGOS, R. MAYORGA-MARTINEZ, C. KINČL, T. PUMERA, M.

Original Title

Nanostructured Hybrid BioBots for Beer Brewing

Type

journal article in Web of Science

Language

English

Original Abstract

The brewing industry will amass a revenue above 500 billion euros in 2022, and the market is expected to grow annually. This industrial process is based on a slow sugar fermentation by yeast (commonly Saccharomyces cerevisiae). Herein, we encapsulate yeast cells into a biocompatible alginate (ALG) polymer along Fe3O4 nanoparticles to produce magneto/catalytic nanostructured ALG@yeast-Fe3O4 BioBots. Yeast encapsulated in these biocompatible BioBots keeps their biological activity (growth, reproduction, and catalytic fermentation) essential for brewing. Catalytic fermentation of sugars into CO2 gas caused a continuous oscillatory motion of the BioBots in the solution. This BioBot motion is employed to enhance the beer fermentation process compared to static-free yeast cells. When the process is finished, magnetic actuation of BioBots is employed for their retrieval from the beer samples, which avoids the need of additional filtration steps. All in all, we demonstrate how an industrial process such as beer production can be benefited by miniaturized autonomous magneto/catalytic BioBots.

Keywords

biohybrid; robots; magnetic; driven; beer; fermentation; hydrogel; brewing

Authors

HORMIGOS, R.; MAYORGA-MARTINEZ, C.; KINČL, T.; PUMERA, M.

Released

25. 4. 2023

Publisher

American Chemical Society

Location

WASHINGTON

ISBN

1936-086X

Periodical

ACS Nano (e-ISSN)

Year of study

17

Number

8

State

United States of America

Pages from

7595

Pages to

7603

Pages count

9

URL

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.2c12677

Full text in the Digital Library

http://hdl.handle.net/11012/213676

BibTex

@article{BUT183979,
  author="Roberto Maria {Hormigos} and Carmen C. {Mayorga-Martinez} and Tomáš {Kinčl} and Martin {Pumera}",
  title="Nanostructured Hybrid BioBots for Beer Brewing",
  journal="ACS Nano (e-ISSN)",
  year="2023",
  volume="17",
  number="8",
  pages="7595--7603",
  doi="10.1021/acsnano.2c12677",
  issn="1936-086X",
  url="https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.2c12677"
}