6. Conclusions

Despite the huge potential of many bio-based compounds in several diverse areas, their use is still limited due to different reasons such as poor aqueous solubility, volatility, reactivity, etc. Therefore, advanced strategies have to be developed in order to minimize some of these weaknesses to make bio-based molecules usable on a larger scale. It became patent in this chapter that CD interaction with bio-based compounds, such as different phytochemicals or sugar-based surfactants, has generally a remarkable positive impact on their performance, improving their aqueous solubility and availability and decreasing their degradation rate, etc. Moreover, it is clear that this is not only interesting and beneficial from an application point of view but also very stimulating from a fundamental perspective where thermodynamics, modeling, and different experimental methodologies get together for a deep and challenging characterization of the systems. Eventually, such knowledge will be crucial for the future development of improved formulations and make use at full extent of the exciting properties of bio-based compounds.
