Biorecovery of gold using cyanobacteria and an eukaryotic alga with special reference to nanogold formation – a novel phenomenon
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...Cyanobacteria and eukaryotic alga genera such as Lyngbya majuscule, Spirulina subsalsa, Rhizoclonium heiroglyphicum, Chlorella vulgaris, Cladophora prolifera, Padina pavonica, Spirulina platensis, and Sargassum fluitans can be used as cost effective means for biorecovery of gold out of the aqueous solutions, as well as the formation of gold NPs (133-136)....
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...Cyanobacteria and eukaryotic alga genera such as Lyngbya majuscule, Spirulina subsalsa, and Rhizoclonium heiroglyphicum could be used as cost-effective means for the biorecovery of gold out of the aqueous solutions, as well as the formation of gold nanoparticles (Chakraborty et al., 2009)....
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...In another study, Chakraborty et al. (2009) demonstrated that live algal biomass might be a viable cost-effective tool for biorecovery and phytomining of gold as well as formation of gold nanoparticles....
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...Moreover, intracellular synthesis of gold nanoparticles was also reported in Rhodococcus sp., an alkalotolerant actinomycete (Ahmed et al. 2003b), and in the alfalfa biomass as purple-coloured depositions (Gardea-Torresdey et al. 1998)....
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...…especially the bacteria, fungi (Pethkar and Paknikar 1998; Fortin and Beveridge 2000; Mukherjee et al. 2001a, 2002; Niar and Pradeep 2002; Ahmed et al. 2003a, 2003b, 2003c; Shankar et al. 2003; Konishi et al. 2004) and some higher plants (GardeaTorresdey 1998, 2002; Ankamwar et al. 2005)…...
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...Complete reduction and formation of spherical and monodispersed gold nanoparticles of 8 nm size was also observed in extremophilic actinomycete Thermomonospora (Ahmed et al. 2003a) and the fungal genus Colleotrichum (Shankar et al. 2003)....
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...In this regard, formation of siliceous frustules as a natural source of nanosilica by diatoms and bioreduction together with magnetic nanoparticle production by magnetostatic bacteria are wellknown examples (Mann 1993; Oliver et al. 1995; Kroger et al. 1999; Dickson 1999)....
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...In this regard, formation of siliceous frustules as a natural source of nanosilica by diatoms and bioreduction together with magnetic nanoparticle production by magnetostatic bacteria are wellknown examples (Mann 1993; Oliver et al. 1995; Kroger et al. 1999; Dickson 1999)....
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...As an alternative, microorganisms, especially the bacteria, fungi (Pethkar and Paknikar 1998; Fortin and Beveridge 2000; Mukherjee et al. 2001a, 2002; Niar and Pradeep 2002; Ahmed et al. 2003a, 2003b, 2003c; Shankar et al. 2003; Konishi et al. 2004) and some higher plants (GardeaTorresdey 1998, 2002; Ankamwar et al....
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...2003a) and the fungal genus Colleotrichum (Shankar et al. 2003)....
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...…fungi (Pethkar and Paknikar 1998; Fortin and Beveridge 2000; Mukherjee et al. 2001a, 2002; Niar and Pradeep 2002; Ahmed et al. 2003a, 2003b, 2003c; Shankar et al. 2003; Konishi et al. 2004) and some higher plants (GardeaTorresdey 1998, 2002; Ankamwar et al. 2005) have been found to be possible…...
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...Complete reduction and formation of spherical and monodispersed gold nanoparticles of 8 nm size was also observed in extremophilic actinomycete Thermomonospora (Ahmed et al. 2003a) and the fungal genus Colleotrichum (Shankar et al. 2003)....
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