Metal Bionanohybrids against Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion (MIC) Consortia.

ABSTRACT: In search of new materials that would help to prevent microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC), we have designed and synthetized six different copper and copper-silver nanoparticle-enzyme hybrids using a mild-conditions method carried out in water and r.t. Characterization analyses exhibited the presence of small crystalline nanoparticles with diameters from 2 to 20 nm. X-ray diffraction determined that the Cu hybrids were composed of different copper species, depending on the synthetic protocol used, while the Cu-Ag hybrids were mainly composed of copper and silver phosphate metallic species. Then, the bacterial viability of three MIC-relevant enrichments, sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB), slime-forming bacteria (SFB), and acid-producing bacteria (APB), was studied in the presence of t

SUBMITTER: Ortega-Nieto C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11397077 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature