Visualization of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans biofilms on pyrite by atomic force and epifluorescence microscopy under various experimental conditions

Hydrometallurgy

Volumn 94, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 127-132

  Mangold, Stefanie ^a,b   Laxander, Michaela ^a   Harneit, Kerstin ^a   Rohwerder, Thore ^a   Claus, Günter ^b   Sand, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b MANNHEIM UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans; Atomic force microscopy; Bioleaching; Epifluorescence microscopy; Lectins; Pyrite

Indexed keywords

ACIDS; AIR; ATOMIC PHYSICS; ATOMS; BACTERIOLOGY; BIOPOLYMERS; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; DEWATERING; FETAL MONITORING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; MINING; POLYSACCHARIDES; PYRITES; SILICA; SILICATE MINERALS; THEOREM PROVING;

ACIDITHIOBACILLUS FERROOXIDANS; BIOLEACHING; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; LECTINS; PYRITE;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY;

EID: 53449098075     PISSN: 0304386X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hydromet.2008.05.044     Document Type: Article

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