Sorption and Transformation of Toxic Metals by Microorganisms

Environmental Microbiology: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 153-176

  Han, Xu ^a   Gu, Ji Dong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Biochemical interactions between bacteria and metal ions; Nanometal (oxide) application in nanotechnology based industries; Toxic metal sorption and microorganism transformation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857363050     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470495117.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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