Engineering bacterial biopolymers for the biosorption of heavy metals

Handbook of Carbohydrate Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 507-534

  Bach, Horacio ^a   Gutnick, David L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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