Abiotic reductive immobilization of U(VI) by biogenic mackinawite

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2361-2369

  Veeramani, Harish ^a   Scheinost, Andreas C ^b   Monsegue, Niven ^c   Qafoku, Nikolla P ^d   Kukkadapu, Ravi ^e   Newville, Matt ^f   Lanzirotti, Antonio ^f   Pruden, Amy ^a   Murayama, Mitsuhiro ^a,c   Hochella, Michael F ^a,d  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

^c Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

^d PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGENIC MINERALS; BULK ANALYSIS; DIRECT ELECTRON TRANSFER; ELECTRON ACCEPTOR; FERRIC IRON; MACKINAWITE; MOSSBAUER; NANO PARTICULATES; NANO SCALE; REDUCTIVE IMMOBILIZATION; SHEWANELLA; SPECTROSCOPIC TECHNIQUE; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIA;

BIOREMEDIATION; SULFATE MINERALS;

SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

BIOGENIC AMINE; FERRIC ION; FERROUS SULFIDE; MACKINAWITE; NANOPARTICLE; SULFATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URANIUM;

ADSORPTION; BACTERIUM; BIOGENIC MINERAL; BIOREMEDIATION; CATALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; IMMOBILIZATION; MACKINAWITE; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION; REDUCTION; SULFATE; URANIUM;

ABIOTIC STRESS; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTRON; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; IMMOBILIZATION; MOSSBAUER SPECTROSCOPY; NANOANALYSIS; REDUCTION; REDUCTION KINETICS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SHEWANELLA PUTREFACIENS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION;

ADSORPTION; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FERROUS COMPOUNDS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SHEWANELLA PUTREFACIENS; SPECTROSCOPY, MOSSBAUER; SULFIDES; URANIUM; X-RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84874632224     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es304025x     Document Type: Article

References (77)

1. Bethke, C. M.; Sanford, R. A.; Kirk, M. F.; Jin, Q.; Flynn, T. M. The thermodynamic ladder in geomicrobiology Am. J. Sci. 2011, 311 (3) 183-210
2. 4-reduction interface Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 1996, 60 (17) 3169-3175
3. Anderson, R.; Vrionis, H.; Ortiz-Bernad, I.; Resch, C.; Long, P.; Dayvault, R.; Karp, K.; Marutzky, S.; Metzler, D.; Peacock, A.; White, D.; Lowe, M.; Lovley, D. Stimulating the in situ activity of Geobacter species to remove uranium from the groundwater of a uranium-contaminated aquifer Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2003, 5884-5891
4. N'Guessan, A. L.; Vrionis, H. A.; Resch, C. T.; Long, P. E.; Lovley, D. R. Sustained Removal of Uranium From Contaminated Groundwater Following Stimulation of Dissimilatory Metal Reduction Environ. Sci. Technol. 2008, 42 (8) 2999-3004
5. Burkhardt, E.-M.; Akob, D. M.; Bischoff, S.; Sitte, J.; Kostka, J. E.; Banerjee, D.; Scheinost, A. C.; Küsel, K. Impact of Biostimulated Redox Processes on Metal Dynamics in an Iron-Rich Creek Soil of a Former Uranium Mining Area Environ. Sci. Technol. 2009, 44 (1) 177-183
6. Istok, J.; Senko, J.; Krumholz, L.; Watson, D.; Bogle, M.; Peacock, A.; Chang, Y.; White, D. In situ bioreduction of technetium and uranium in a nitrate-contaminated aquifer Environ. Sci. Technol. 2004, 468-475
7. Kappler, A.; Straub, K. L. Geomicrobiological Cycling of Iron Rev. Mineral. Geochem. 2005, 59 (1) 85-108
8. Kostka, J.; Dalton, D.; Skelton, H.; Dollhopf, S.; Stucki, J. Growth of iron(III)-reducing bacteria on clay minerals as the sole electron acceptor and comparison of growth yields on a variety of oxidized iron forms Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2002, 68 (12) 6256-62
9. Zachara, J.; Kukkadapu, R.; Fredrickson, J.; Gorby, Y.; Smith, S. Biomineralization of poorly crystalline Fe(III) oxides by dissimilatory metal reducing bacteria (DMRB) Geomicrobiol. J. 2002, 179-207
10. Wielinga, B.; Bostick, B.; Hansel, C. M.; Rosenzweig, R. F.; Fendorf, S. Inhibition of Bacterially Promoted Uranium Reduction: Ferric (Hydr)oxides as Competitive Electron Acceptors Environ. Sci. Technol. 2000, 34 (11) 2190-2195
11. Finneran, K.; Housewright, M.; Lovley, D. Multiple influences of nitrate on uranium solubility during bioremediation of uranium-contaminated subsurface sediments Environ. Microbiol. 2002, 510-516
12. Liu, C.; Zachara, J. M.; Gorby, Y. A.; Szecsody, J. E.; Brown, C. F. Microbial Reduction of Fe(III) and Sorption/Precipitation of Fe(II) on Shewanella putrefaciens Strain CN32 Environ. Sci. Technol. 2001, 35 (7) 1385-1393
13. Bell, P. E.; Mills, A. L.; Herman, J. S. Biogeochemical Conditions Favoring Magnetite Formation during Anaerobic Iron Reduction Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 1987, 53 (11) 2610-2616
14. Dong, H.; Fredrickson, J. K.; Kennedy, D. W.; Zachara, J. M.; Kukkadapu, R. K.; Onstott, T. C. Mineral transformations associated with the microbial reduction of magnetite Chem. Geol. 2000, 169 (3-4) 299-318
15. Fredrickson, J. K.; Zachara, J. M.; Kennedy, D. W.; Dong, H.; Onstott, T. C.; Hinman, N. W.; Li, S.-m. Biogenic iron mineralization accompanying the dissimilatory reduction of hydrous ferric oxide by a groundwater bacterium Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 1998, 62 (19-20) 3239-3257
16. O'Loughlin, E.; Larese-Casanova, P.; Scherer, M.; Cook, R. Green rust formation from the bioreduction of gamma-FeOOH (lepidocrocite): Comparison of several Shewanella species Geomicrobiol. J. 2007, 211-230
17. O'Loughlin, E. J.; Kelly, S. D.; Kemner, K. M. XAFS Investigation of the Interactions of UVI with Secondary Mineralization Products from the Bioreduction of FeIII Oxides Environ. Sci. Technol. 2010, 44 (5) 1656-1661
18. Komlos, J.; Moon, H.; Jaffe, P. Effect of Sulfate on the Simultaneous Bioreduction of Iron and Uranium J. Environ. Qual. 2008, 2058-2062
19. Roden, E. E.; Zachara, J. M. Microbial Reduction of Crystalline Iron(III) Oxides: Influence of Oxide Surface Area and Potential for Cell Growth Environ. Sci. Technol. 1996, 30 (5) 1618-1628
20. 3+ oxides in single phase suspensions and subsurface materials Am. Mineral. 1998, 83 (11-12, Part 2) 1426-1443
21. Roh, Y.; Zhang, C.-L.; Vali, H.; Lauf, R. J.; Zhou, J.; Phelps, T. J. Biogeochemical and environmental factors in Fe biomineralization: Magnetite and siderite formation Clays Clay Miner. 2003, 51 (1) 83-95
22. Veeramani, H.; Alessi, D. S.; Suvorova, E. I.; Lezama-Pacheco, J. S.; Stubbs, J. E.; Sharp, J. O.; Dippon, U.; Kappler, A.; Bargar, J. R.; Bernier-Latmani, R. Products of abiotic U(VI) reduction by biogenic magnetite and vivianite Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 2011, 75 (9) 2512-2528
23. Behrends, T.; Van Cappellen, P. Competition between enzymatic and abiotic reduction of uranium(VI) under iron reducing conditions Chem. Geol. 2005, 220 (3-4) 315-327
24. Fredrickson, J.; Zachara, J.; Kennedy, D.; Duff, M.; Gorby, Y.; Li, S.; Krupka, K. Reduction of U(VI) in goethite (alpha-FeOOH) suspensions by a dissimilatory metal-reducing bacterium Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 2000, 3085-3098
25. Charlet, L.; Liger, E.; Gerasimo, P. Decontamination of TCE- and U-Rich Waters by Granular Iron: Role of Sorbed Fe(II) J. Environ. Eng. 1998, 124 (1) 25-30
26. Jeon, B.-H.; Kelly, S. D.; Kemner, K. M.; Barnett, M. O.; Burgos, W. D.; Dempsey, B. A.; Roden, E. E. Microbial Reduction of U(VI) at the Solid-Water Interface Environ. Sci. Technol. 2004, 38 (21) 5649-5655
27. Liger, E.; Charlet, L.; Van Cappellen, P. Surface catalysis of uranium(VI) reduction by iron(II) Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 1999, 63 (19-20) 2939-2955
28. Regenspurg, S.; Schild, D.; Schäfer, T.; Huber, F.; Malmström, M. E. Removal of uranium(VI) from the aqueous phase by iron(II) minerals in presence of bicarbonate Appl. Geochem. 2009, 24 (9) 1617-1625
29. Chakraborty, S.; Favre, F.; Banerjee, D.; Scheinost, A. C.; Mullet, M.; Ehrhardt, J.-J.; Brendle, J.; Vidal, L. c.; Charlet, L. U(VI) Sorption and Reduction by Fe(II) Sorbed on Montmorillonite Environ. Sci. Technol. 2010, 44 (10) 3779-3785
30. Jeon, B.-H.; Dempsey, B. A.; Burgos, W. D.; Barnett, M. O.; Roden, E. E. Chemical Reduction of U(VI) by Fe(II) at the Solid-Water Interface Using Natural and Synthetic Fe(III) Oxides Environ. Sci. Technol. 2005, 39 (15) 5642-5649
31. Boyanov, M. I.; O'Loughlin, E. J.; Roden, E. E.; Fein, J. B.; Kemner, K. M. Adsorption of Fe(II) and U(VI) to carboxyl-functionalized microspheres: The influence of speciation on uranyl reduction studied by titration and XAFS Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 2007, 71 (8) 1898-1912
32. 2 manoparticies Environ. Sci. Technol. 2003, 721-727
33. Ilton, E. S.; Haiduc, A.; Moses, C. O.; Heald, S. M.; Elbert, D. C.; Veblen, D. R. Heterogeneous reduction of uranyl by micas: Crystal chemical and solution controls Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 2004, 68 (11) 2417-2435
34. Ilton, E. S.; Heald, S. M.; Smith, S. C.; Elbert, D.; Liu, C. Reduction of Uranyl in the Interlayer Region of Low Iron Micas under Anoxic and Aerobic Conditions Environ. Sci. Technol. 2006, 40 (16) 5003-5009
35. Wersin, P.; Hochella, M. F., Jr.; Persson, P.; Redden, G.; Leckie, J. O.; Harris, D. W. Interaction between aqueous uranium (VI) and sulfide minerals: Spectroscopic evidence for sorption and reduction Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 1994, 58 (13) 2829-2843
36. Bruggeman, C.; Maes, N. Uptake of Uranium(VI) by Pyrite under Boom Clay Conditions: Influence of Dissolved Organic Carbon Environ. Sci. Technol. 2010, 44 (11) 4210-4216
37. Qafoku, N. P.; Kukkadapu, R. K.; McKinley, J. P.; Arey, B. W.; Kelly, S. D.; Wang, C.; Resch, C. T.; Long, P. E. Uranium in Framboidal Pyrite from a Naturally Bioreduced Alluvial Sediment Environ. Sci. Technol. 2009, 43 (22) 8528-8534
38. Hyun, S. P.; Davis, J. A.; Sun, K.; Hayes, K. F. Uranium(VI) Reduction by Iron(II) Monosulfide Mackinawite Environ. Sci. Technol. 2012, 46 (6) 3369-3376
39. Moyes, L. N.; Parkman, R. H.; Charnock, J. M.; Vaughan, D. J.; Livens, F. R.; Hughes, C. R.; Braithwaite, A. Uranium Uptake from Aqueous Solution by Interaction with Goethite, Lepidocrocite, Muscovite, and Mackinawite: An X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Study Environ. Sci. Technol. 2000, 34 (6) 1062-1068
40. Livens, F. R.; Jones, M. J.; Hynes, A. J.; Charnock, J. M.; Mosselmans, J. F. W.; Hennig, C.; Steele, H.; Collison, D.; Vaughan, D. J.; Pattrick, R. A. D.; Reed, W. A.; Moyes, L. N. X-ray absorption spectroscopy studies of reactions of technetium, uranium and neptunium with mackinawite J. Environ. Radioact. 2004, 74 (1-3) 211-219
41. Hua, B.; Deng, B. Reductive Immobilization of Uranium(VI) by Amorphous Iron Sulfide Environ. Sci. Technol. 2008, 42 (23) 8703-8708
42. Abdelouas, A.; Lutze, W.; Nuttall, H. E. Oxidative dissolution of uraninite precipitated on Navajo sandstone J. Contam. Hydrol. 1999, 36 (3-4) 353-375
43. Personna, Y. R.; Ntarlagiannis, D.; Slater, L.; Yee, N.; O'Brien, M.; Hubbard, S. Spectral induced polarization and electrodic potential monitoring of microbially mediated iron sulfide transformations J. Geophys. Res. 2008, 113 (G2) G02020
44. Williams, K. H.; Ntarlagiannis, D.; Slater, L. D.; Dohnalkova, A.; Hubbard, S. S.; Banfield, J. F. Geophysical Imaging of Stimulated Microbial Biomineralization Environ. Sci. Technol. 2005, 39 (19) 7592-7600
45. Williams, K. H.; Kemna, A.; Wilkins, M. J.; Druhan, J.; Arntzen, E.; N'Guessan, A. L.; Long, P. E.; Hubbard, S. S.; Banfield, J. F. Geophysical Monitoring of Coupled Microbial and Geochemical Processes During Stimulated Subsurface Bioremediation Environ. Sci. Technol. 2009, 43 (17) 6717-6723
46. Butler, I. B.; Rickard, D. Framboidal pyrite formation via the oxidation of iron (II) monosulfide by hydrogen sulphide Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 2000, 64 (15) 2665-2672
47. Sweeney, R. E.; Kaplan, I. R. Pyrite Framboid Formation; Laboratory Synthesis and Marine Sediments Econ. Geol. 1973, 68 (5) 618-634
48. Berner, R. A. Sedimentary pyrite formation Am. J. Sci. 1970, 268 (1) 1-23
49. Patterson, R. R.; Fendorf, S.; Fendorf, M. Reduction of Hexavalent Chromium by Amorphous Iron Sulfide Environ. Sci. Technol. 1997, 31 (7) 2039-2044
50. Scheinost, A. C.; Charlet, L. Selenite Reduction by Mackinawite, Magnetite and Siderite: XAS Characterization of Nanosized Redox Products Environ. Sci. Technol. 2008, 42 (6) 1984-1989
51. Stookey, L. L. Ferrozine-A new spectrophotometric reagent for iron Anal. Chem. 1970, 42 (7) 779-781
52. Integrated X-ray powder diffraction software. Rigaku J. 2010, 26, (1), 23-27.
53. Peretyazhko, T. S.; Zachara, J. M.; Kukkadapu, R. K.; Heald, S. M.; Kutnyakov, I. V.; Resch, C. T.; Arey, B. W.; Wang, C. M.; Kovarik, L.; Phillips, J. L.; Moore, D. A. Pertechnetate (TcO4-) reduction by reactive ferrous iron forms in naturally anoxic, redox transition zone sediments from the Hanford Site, USA Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 2012, 92 (0) 48-66
54. Rancourt, D. G.; Ping, J. Y. Voigt-based methods for arbitrary-shape static hyperfine parameter distributions in Mössbauer spectroscopy Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res., Sect. B 1991, 58 (1) 85-97
55. Ressler, T. WinXAS: a program for X-ray absorption spectroscopy data analysis under MS-Windows J Synchrotron Radiat. 1998, 5, 118-122
56. Hunger, S.; Benning, L. Greigite: A true intermediate on the polysulfide pathway to pyrite Geochem. Trans. 2007, 8 (1) 1
57. Herbert, R. B., Jr.; Benner, S. G.; Pratt, A. R.; Blowes, D. W. Surface chemistry and morphology of poorly crystalline iron sulfides precipitated in media containing sulfate-reducing bacteria Chem. Geol. 1998, 144 (1-2) 87-97
58. Mullet, M.; Boursiquot, S.; Abdelmoula, M.; Genin, J. M.; Ehrhardt, J. J. Surface chemistry and structural properties of mackinawite prepared by reaction of sulfide ions with metallic iron Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 2002, 66 (5) 829-836
59. Ohfuji, H.; Rickard, D. High resolution transmission electron microscopic study of synthetic nanocrystalline mackinawite Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 2006, 241 (1-2) 227-233
60. Jeong, H. Y. Characterization of synthetic nanocrystalline mackinawite: Crystal structure, particle size, and specific surface area Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 2008, 72 (2) 493-505
61. Murad, E.; Cashion, J. Mössbauer Spectroscopy of Environmental Materials and Their Industrial Utilization; Kluwer Academic Publishers: Boston, MA, 2004.
62. Mycroft, J. R.; Bancroft, G. M.; McIntyre, N. S.; Lorimer, J. W.; Hill, I. R. Detection of sulphur and polysulphides on electrochemically oxidized pyrite surfaces by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and Raman spectroscopy J. Electroanal. Chem. Interfacial Electrochem. 1990, 292 (1-2) 139-152
63. Nesbitt, H. W.; Bancroft, G. M.; Pratt, A. R.; Scaini, M. J. Sulfur and iron surface states on fractured pyrite surfaces Am. Mineral. 1998, 83 (9-10) 1067-1076
64. 2 in Products of U(VI) Reduction Environ. Sci. Technol. 2012, 46 (11) 6150-6157
65. Pratt, A. R.; Muir, I. J.; Nesbitt, H. W. X-ray photoelectron and Auger electron spectroscopic studies of pyrrhotite and mechanism of air oxidation Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 1994, 58 (2) 827-841
66. Jones, C. F.; LeCount, S.; Smart, R. S. C.; White, T. J. Compositional and structural alteration of pyrrhotite surfaces in solution: XPS and XRD studies Appl. Surf. Sci. 1992, 55 (1) 65-85
67. Baltrus, J. P.; Proctor, A. Composition of overlayers on oxidized pyrite surfaces Appl. Surf. Sci. 1990, 44 (2) 147-150
68. Bancroft, G. M.; Hyland, M. M. Spectroscopic studies of adsorption/reduction reactions of aqueous metal complexes on sulphide surfaces Rev. Mineral. Geochem. 1990, 23 (1) 511-558
69. Langmuir, D. Uranium solution-mineral equilibria at low temperatures with applications to sedimentary ore deposits Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 1978, 42 (6, Part 1) 547-569
70. 2 Geokhimiya 1962, 9, 763-769
71. Lovley, D. R.; Phillips, E. J. P.; Gorby, Y. A.; Landa, E. R. Microbial Reduction of Uranium Nature 1991, 350 (6317) 413-416
72. Dullies, F.; Lutze, W.; Gong, W.; Nuttall, H. E. Biological reduction of uranium-From the laboratory to the field Sci. Total Environ. 2010, 408 (24) 6260-6271
73. Abdelouas, A.; Lu, Y.; Lutze, W.; Nuttall, H. E. Reduction of U(VI) to U(IV) by indigenous bacteria in contaminated ground water J. Contam. Hydrol. 1998, 35 (1-3) 217-233
74. Cardenas, E.; Wu, W.-M.; Leigh, M. B.; Carley, J.; Carroll, S.; Gentry, T.; Luo, J.; Watson, D.; Gu, B.; Ginder-Vogel, M.; Kitanidis, P. K.; Jardine, P. M.; Zhou, J.; Criddle, C. S.; Marsh, T. L.; Tiedje, J. M. Microbial Communities in Contaminated Sediments, Associated with Bioremediation of Uranium to Submicromolar Levels Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008, 74 (12) 3718-3729
75. 2) suspensions Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 2010, 74 (5) 1551-1562
76. Rickard, D. T. Kinetics and mechanism of pyrite formation at low temperatures Am. J. Sci. 1975, 275 (6) 636-652
77. Veeramani, H.; Schofield, E. J.; Sharp, J. O.; Suvorova, E. I.; Ulrich, K. U.; Mehta, A.; Giammar, D. E.; Bargar, J. R.; Bernier-Latmanit, R. Effect of Mn(II) on the structure and reactivity of biogenic uraninite Environ. Sci. Technol. 2009, 43 (17) 6541-7