Heavy metal removal with exopolysaccharide-producing cyanobacteria

Heavy Metals in the Environment

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 89-122

  de Philippis, Roberto ^a   Micheletti, Ernesto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

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