"NiCo Buster": engineering E. coli for fast and efficient capture of cobalt and nickel.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Metal contamination is widespread and results from natural geogenic and constantly increasing anthropogenic sources (mainly mining and extraction activities, electroplating, battery and steel manufacturing or metal finishing). Consequently, there is a growing need for methods to detoxify polluted ecosystems. Industrial wastewater, surface water and ground water need to be decontaminated to alleviate the contamination of soils and sediments and, ultimately, the human food chain. In nuclear power plants, radioactive metals are produced; these metals need to be removed from effluents before they are released into the environment, not only for pollution prevention but also for waste minimization. Many physicochemical methods have been developed for metal removal from aqueous

SUBMITTER: Duprey A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4124493 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature