Multispecies Biofilms Transform Selenium Oxyanions into Elemental Selenium Particles: Studies Using Combined Synchrotron X-ray Fluorescence Imaging and Scanning Transmission X-ray Microscopy

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 50, Issue 19, 2016, Pages 10343-10350

  Yang, Soo In ^a   George, Graham N ^a   Lawrence, John R ^b   Kaminskyj, Susan G W ^a   Dynes, James J ^c   Lai, Barry ^d   Pickering, Ingrid J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c CANADIAN LIGHT SOURCE INC   (Canada)

^d ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOFILMS; CARBON; CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; FLUORESCENCE; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; PROTEINS; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY MICROSCOPES;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING; ELECTRON-DENSE PARTICLES; EXTRACELLULAR POLYMERIC SUBSTANCES; PHYSICAL MODIFICATIONS; SCANNING TRANSMISSION X RAY MICROSCOPY; SYNCHROTRON TECHNIQUES; SYNCHROTRON X-RAY FLUORESCENCES; X-RAY FLUORESCENCE IMAGING;

SELENIUM;

CARBON; POLYSACCHARIDE; SELENIUM;

ANION; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOFILM; BIOTRANSFORMATION; IMAGING METHOD; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NANOPARTICLE; POLYMER; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SELENIUM; X-RAY FLUORESCENCE;

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CONFOCAL LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; PARTICLE SIZE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SCANNING TRANSMISSION X RAY MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY; SYNCHROTRON; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY FLUORESCENCE; METABOLISM; MICROSCOPY; X RAY;

BIOFILMS; MICROSCOPY; SELENIUM; SYNCHROTRONS; X-RAYS;

EID: 84989810463     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b04529     Document Type: Article

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