Immobilization of Heavy Metals from Fluid Flows by Manganese Oxide Generating Biofilms
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Immobilization of Heavy Metals from Fluid Flows by Manganese Oxide Generating Biofilms
PI: Jared Leadbetter
Research Team: Hannah Way
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences and Division of Engineering and Applied Science
Water Resources Initiative and Ecology and Biosphere Engineering Initiative
2023 Explorer grant
Reactor-based studies will be employed to examine the impact of biologically produced manganese oxides on immobilizing toxic metals from fluid flows, as assessed using ICP-MS analyses of the metal contents of inflows, outflows, and the oxides themselves.