| Literature DB >> 23859846 |
Liwen Zhang1, Elijah J Petersen, Mussie Y Habteselassie, Liang Mao, Qingguo Huang.
Abstract
Understanding the environmental transformation of multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) is important to their life cycle assessment and potential environmental impacts. We report that a bacterial community is capable of degrading (14)C-labeled MWCNTs into (14)CO2 in the presence of an external carbon source via co-metabolism. Multiple intermediate products were detected, and genotypic characterization revealed three possible microbial degraders: Burkholderia kururiensis, Delftia acidovorans, and Stenotrophomonas maltophilia. This result suggests that microbe/MWCNTs interaction may impact the long-term fate of MWCNTs.Entities:
Keywords: Aerobic biotransformation; Carbon nanotubes; Microbial degradation; Nanotoxicology
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Year: 2013 PMID: 23859846 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2013.05.058
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Environ Pollut ISSN: 0269-7491 Impact factor: 8.071