Scale-up of the production of highly reactive biogenic magnetite nanoparticles using Geobacter sulfurreducens

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 12, Issue 107, 2015, Pages

  Byrne, J M ^a,b   Muhamadali, H ^a   Coker, V S ^a   Cooper, J ^c   Lloyd, J R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c CENTRE FOR PROCESS INNOVATION   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bioreactor; Fe(III) reduction; Geobiology; Nanotechnology; Remediation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOREACTORS; CHROMIUM COMPOUNDS; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; MAGNETITE; NANOMAGNETICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PILOT PLANTS; REMEDIATION;

COMMERCIAL EXPLOITATION; ENVIRONMENTALLY BENIGN; FE REDUCTIONS; GEOBACTER SULFURREDUCENS; GEOBIOLOGY; MICROBIAL SYNTHESIS; SURFACE REACTIVITY; SYNTHETIC TECHNIQUES;

MAGNETITE NANOPARTICLES;

BUFFER; CYTOCHROME; FERRIC HYDROXIDE; MAGNETITE NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; AUTOCLAVE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BATCH FERMENTATION; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; BIOREACTOR; BIOTECHNOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; COLOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTALLIZATION; DRY WEIGHT; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; GEOBACTER SULFURREDUCENS; GROWTH RATE; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PH; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REDUCTION; SCALE UP; STARTER CULTURE; STOICHIOMETRY; SURFACE AREA; SURFACE PROPERTY; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION; TEMPERATURE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; CHEMISTRY; GEOBACTER; METABOLISM; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GEOBACTER SULFURREDUCENS;

GEOBACTER; MAGNETITE NANOPARTICLES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION;

EID: 84930729067     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2015.0240     Document Type: Article

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