Biomass-derived Carbon-based Materials for Microbicidal Applications

Biosphere (universe) comprises of a huge volume of biomasss from the major source of agricultural sectors, food sectors, and industrial sectors. Most of them are highly desirable traits in terms of degradability, and effectively making use of these biomasss is being a prominent one. The presence of certain functional molecules and amino functional groups confers the advantages of converting biomasss into chemical entities that sought-after functionalization properties toward its end-user applications. Recently, biomass-derived chemicals are set to be a platform for renewable feedstocks particularly from carbonaceous materials offering its impact in the biological field. This development opens new paves to fight as antimicrobial resistant, and some reports show carbon-based nanomaterials play an exceptional microbicidal property against specific resistant bacteria. Hence, this chapter emphasizes microbicidal applications of biomass-derived carbonaceous materials such as carbon dots and graphene. A few examples of sustainable transformations of waste into a commodity (carbonaceous materials) are presented. How these carbonaceous materials have their beneficiary effects in the microbicidal (antibacterial, antifungal, and antimicrobial) will be addressed in a detailed way in the respective sections. As concluding remarks, the future perspectives of the biomass-derived carbon materials for biological sectors will be wrapped up.