Biosorption is a technique that can be used for the removal of pollutants from waters,
especially those that are not easily biodegradable such as metals and dyes. A variety of …

Recovery of precious metals like gold, silver, palladium platinum etc. is interesting due to its
high market prices along with various industrial applications. Conventional technologies viz …

The removal of heavy metal from the environment, especially wastewater, is now shifting
from the use of conventional methods to the use of biosorption, which may be defined as the …

The treatment of environmental pollution by microorganisms is a promising technology.
Various genetic approaches have been developed and used to optimize the enzymes …

The last two decades have seen geomicrobiology evolve into a broad field encompassing a
wide range of environmentally significant processes such as proton and metal adsorption …

Highlights•The supply risk of PGMs and REEs drives biometallurgical technology
development.•Waste streams with low metal concentrations are niches for …

According to previous studies, Microcystis aeruginosa, a picocyanobacteria, is more
sensitive to copper than the other phytoplanktonic species such as Chlorella vulgaris a …

Adsorption properties of bacterial biomass were tested for Cd removal from liquid effluents.
Experimental conditions (pH, time, cellular mass, volume, metal concentration) were studied …

The state of the art of biosorption for application in precious metals recovery in recent years
is presented in the current work. Precious metals including Au, Ag, Pd, Pt, etc. have …

The role of bacterial extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) in metal adsorption was
determined by studying Cd adsorption onto the gram-negative bacterial species …