Bio-precipitation of uranium by two bacterial isolates recovered from extreme environments as estimated by potentiometric titration, TEM and X-ray absorption spectroscopic analyses

Journal of Hazardous Materials

Volumn 197, Issue , 2011, Pages 1-10

  Merroun, Mohamed L ^a,b   Nedelkova, Marta ^a,e   Ojeda, Jesus J ^c,d   Reitz, Thomas ^a,f   Fernández, Margarita López ^b   Arias, José M ^b   Romero González, María ^c   Selenska Pobell, Sonja ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^f HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acid phosphatase; Potentiometric titration; TEM EDX; Uranium biomineralization; XAS

Indexed keywords

ACID PHOSPHATASE; ACIDIC CONDITIONS; AQUEOUS SPECIATION; BACILLUS SPHAERICUS; BACTERIAL ISOLATES; BACTERIAL STRAINS; BIO-PRECIPITATION; CELL SURFACES; CELL WALLS; EXTREME ENVIRONMENT; MINERAL PHASE; ORGANIC PHOSPHATES; PH VALUE; POTENTIOMETRIC TITRATIONS; SPHINGOMONAS SP; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON; URANIUM PHOSPHATE; URANYL IONS; XAS;

BACTERIOLOGY; BIOMINERALIZATION; CELL MEMBRANES; ECOLOGY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; OCEAN HABITATS; PH; PHOSPHATASES; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; POTENTIOMETERS (ELECTRIC MEASURING INSTRUMENTS); PRECIPITATES; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; TITRATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; URANIUM; VOLTAMMETRY; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

URANIUM COMPOUNDS;

ACID PHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHATE; URANIUM;

BACTERIUM; BIOMINERALIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESTIMATION METHOD; MINERAL; PH; PHOSPHATE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; URANIUM; X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SPHAERICUS; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOMINERALIZATION; CELL SURFACE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PHYLOGENY; POTENTIOMETRIC TITRATION; PRECIPITATION; SPHINGOMONAS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

BACILLUS; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PHYLOGENY; POTENTIOMETRY; SPHINGOMONAS; URANIUM; X-RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

BACILLUS SPHAERICUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SPHINGOMONAS SP.;

EID: 82155175701     PISSN: 03043894     EISSN: 18733336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2011.09.049     Document Type: Article

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