Journal
CRITICAL REVIEWS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 49, Issue 11, Pages 917-946Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/10643389.2018.1477416
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Biosorption and biodegradation; extracellular mass and electron transfer; extracellular polymeric substances
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51708475, 51578527, 21777135]
- Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province, China [2018JJ3496]
- Hunan 2011 Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Engineering & Technology with Environmental Benignity and Effective Resource Utilization
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Microbial extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) determine the bacterial attachment and structural integration of microbial aggregates, and govern the binding, migration and transformation processes of substrate in extracellular microenvironment. The development of in situ characterization techniques is an interesting research topic to reveal the EPS functions. This review introduces the EPS-involved chemical and biochemical microprocesses in wastewater treatment, and describes the principles, applications, merits and drawbacks of the available in situ characterization techniques in the categories of biosorption and biodegradation of substrates by EPS, attachment kinetics of EPS on surfaces, response of microorganisms to environmental stress, and extracellular mass and electron transfer processes.
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