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NANOTECHNOLOGY
卷 22, 期 45, 页码 -出版社
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/22/45/455709
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- NERC
- Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, of the US Department of Energy [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
- NERC Envirosync II
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/E004601/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/G042519/1, EP/E500579/1, EP/D058767/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/B503309/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- BBSRC [BB/E004601/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- EPSRC [EP/G042519/1, EP/D058767/1] Funding Source: UKRI
The bioproduction of nanoscale magnetite by Fe(III)-reducing bacteria offers a potentially tunable, environmentally benign route to magnetic nanoparticle synthesis. Here, we demonstrate that it is possible to control the size of magnetite nanoparticles produced by Geobacter sulfurreducens by adjusting the total biomass introduced at the start of the process. The particles have a narrow size distribution and can be controlled within the range of 10-50 nm. X-ray diffraction analysis indicates that controlled production of a number of different biominerals is possible via this method including goethite, magnetite and siderite, but their formation is strongly dependent upon the rate of Fe(III) reduction and total concentration and rate of Fe(II) produced by the bacteria during the reduction process. Relative cation distributions within the structure of the nanoparticles have been investigated by x-ray magnetic circular dichroism and indicate the presence of a highly reduced surface layer which is not observed when magnetite is produced through abiotic methods. The enhanced Fe(II)-rich surface, combined with small particle size, has important environmental applications such as in the reductive bioremediation of organics, radionuclides and metals. In the case of Cr(VI), as a model high-valence toxic metal, optimized biogenic magnetite is able to reduce and sequester the toxic hexavalent chromium very efficiently to the less harmful trivalent form.
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