Microbial biofilms: Recent advances and progress in environmental bioremediation

JM Sonawane, AK Rai, M Sharma, M Tripathi… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Microbial biofilms are formed by adherence of the bacteria through their secreted polymer
matrices. The major constituents of the polymer matrices are extracellular DNAs, proteins …

Water in bacterial biofilms: pores and channels, storage and transport functions

K Quan, J Hou, Z Zhang, Y Ren… - Critical reviews in …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Bacterial biofilms occur in many natural and industrial environments. Besides bacteria,
biofilms comprise over 70 wt% water. Water in biofilms occurs as bound-or free-water …

Modelling anaerobic, aerobic and partial nitritation-anammox granular sludge reactors-A review

JE Baeten, DJ Batstone, OJ Schraa… - Water research, 2019 - Elsevier
Wastewater treatment processes with granular sludge are compact and are becoming
increasingly popular. Interest has been accompanied by the development of mathematical …

Towards the biofilm characterization and regulation in biological wastewater treatment

H Huang, C Peng, P Peng, Y Lin, X Zhang… - Applied microbiology and …, 2019 - Springer
There is an increasing need for application of biofilm process in the upcycling of wastewater
treatment plants all around the world in recent years, yet there are few literatures on …

Density measurements of aerobic granular sludge

L van den Berg, M Pronk… - Environmental …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Granular sludge processes are frequently used in domestic and industrial wastewater
treatment. The granule buoyant density and biomass density are important parameters for …

Role of biofilms in waste water treatment

S Verma, A Kuila, S Jacob - Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 2023 - Springer
Biofilm cells have a different physiology than planktonic cells, which has been the focus of
most research. Biofilms are complex biostructures that form on any surface that comes into …

Exploring flow-biofilm-sediment interactions: Assessment of current status and future challenges

SU Gerbersdorf, K Koca, D de Beer, A Chennu, C Noss… - Water Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Biofilm activities and their interactions with physical, chemical and biological processes are
of great importance for a variety of ecosystem functions, impacting hydrogeomorphology …

Situations leading to reduced effectiveness of current hand hygiene against infectious mucus from influenza virus-infected patients

R Hirose, T Nakaya, Y Naito, T Daidoji, R Bandou… - MSphere, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
Both antiseptic hand rubbing (AHR) using ethanol-based disinfectants (EBDs) and antiseptic
hand washing (AHW) are important means of infection control to prevent seasonal influenza …

The exposome paradigm to predict environmental health in terms of systemic homeostasis and resource balance based on NMR data science

J Kikuchi, S Yamada - RSC advances, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The environment, from microbial ecosystems to recycled resources, fluctuates dynamically
due to many physical, chemical and biological factors, the profile of which reflects changes …

Heterogeneous diffusion in aerobic granular sludge

L van den Berg, CM Kirkland… - Biotechnology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aerobic granular sludge (AGS) technology allows simultaneous nitrogen, phosphorus, and
carbon removal in compact wastewater treatment processes. To operate, design, and model …