Selenium (Se) is a problematic contaminant for many regions worldwide. Adsorption is by far the most researched and most promising method in treating Se laden waters. The major limitations in using those adsorbents are the preferential adsorption for either selenite (SeO3) or selenate (SeO4) and interferences by anions such as phosphates. The objective of this study was to remove Se from aqueou...

Correspondence: Viara Ivanova University of Food Technologies – Plovdiv, Department of Microbiology, 26 Maritsa Blvd., 4002 Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Tel.: +359 32 603622 e-mail: [email protected] ABSTRACT Recombinant cyclodextrin glucanotransferase JCGT8-5 (CGTase, EC 2.4.1.19) was effectively immobilized by formation of chemical bounds on polyethylenimine (PEI)-activated silica particles, on silaniz...

Nanoparticles containing magnetic materials, such as magnetite (Fe3O4), are particularly useful for imaging and separation techniques. As these nanoparticles are generally considered to be biologically and chemically inert, they are typically coated with metal catalysts, antibodies or enzymes to increase their functionality as separation agents. Here, we report that magnetite nanoparticles in f...

Magnetite nanoparticles of Fe(3)O(4) have been found to grow into large highly branched nanostructures including nanochains and highly branched nanotrees in the solid state through a postannealing process. By varying the preparation conditions such as annealing time and temperature, the nanostructures could be easily manipulated. Changing the starting concentration of the magnetic nanoparticle ...

The system has been demonstrated over a magnetite skarn deposit at Tallawang, near Gulgong, NSW, which is essentially two-dimensional (2D). The 2D structure was important because it allowed an unaliased total magnetic intensity (TMI) survey to be carried out in parallel, from which tensor components could be calculated to directly compare with the tensor components measured with the rotating gr...

Iron (Fe) minerals and ferrous iron (Fe(II)) play an important role in the several natural elemental cycles, including the carbon cycle, nutrient cycles, and the cycling of metals. In this work we have characterized the reactivity structural Fe(II) in several Fe minerals and in natural soil with uranium. We have studied the reactivity of Fe(II) in solution with the Fe oxide goethite conditions ...

We rcpmt results on the magnetic properties of magnetites produced by magnetotaetie and dissimilatory iron-reducing bacteria. Magnetotactic bacterial (MTB) strains MS I. MV J and MV2 and dissimilatory iron-reducing bacterium ,train GS-15. grown in pure cultures, were used in this study, Our results suggest that a comhination of room tempnature coercivity analysis and low temperature remanence m...

Life on Mars still remains in the realm of science fiction, not solid science, according to Cal Poly Physics Professor Richard Frankel and his co-authors in an article to be published Wednesday (Nov. 21) in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Frankel and other members of his research team challenge NASA scientists' much-publicized announcement in 1996 that a Martian meteorite f...

In terrestrial organisms, sensitivity to the Earth's magnetic field is mediated by at least two different magnetoreception mechanisms, one involving biogenic ferromagnetic crystals (magnetite/maghemite) and the second involving a photo-induced biochemical reaction that forms long-lasting, spin-coordinated, radical pair intermediates. In some vertebrate groups (amphibians and birds), both mechan...