Bio-composite material on the basis of carbonized rice husk in biomedicine and environmental applications

Abstract

The future prospects for biomedical and environmental engineering applications of heterogeneous materials on the basis of nano-structured carbonized rice husk are studied. The use of the nano-structured carbonized sorbents as delivery vehicles for the oral administration of probiotic microorganisms has a very big potential for improving functionality, safety and stability of probiotic preparations. The other possible mechanism of nano-structured carbonized sorbents is wound healing activity; the results demonstrated that the use of this material may offer multiple specific advantages in topical wound management. For bioremediation purposes nano-structured carbonized sorbents can be applied as bio-composite sorbent with immobilized microbial consortium consisting of bacterial strains with high oil-oxidizing activity. © 2012 al-Farabi Kazakh National University.