“…The above features would be important in the development of an economically feasible bioreactor for the starch hydrolysis industry thus immobilizing a-amylase would be of great importance. The general methods employed for immobilization are entrapment, microencapsulation, copolymerization, cross linking, physical adsorption, chemical attachment and covalent binding (Hasirci, Aksoy, & Tumturk, 2006;Markweghanke, Lang, & Wagner, 1995;Mozhaev et al, 1989;Rajagopalan & Krishnan, 2008;Reshmi, Sanjay, & Sugunan, 2006). Immobilization by physical adsorption on inorganic materials such as porous silica (Cao, Bornscheuer, & Schmid, 1999) clay (Sanjay & Sugunan, 2005a, 2005b and collagen (Groom, Meising, & White, 1988) has been reported.…”