What is it about?
Microbes and nanoparticles co-exist together everywhere on Earth. Microbes actively use nanoparticles to assist their metabolism, greatly increasing their impact to the surrounding environments
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Why is it important?
The importance of microbe-nanoparticle interaction has been gaining interests in recent years. It is this smallest interaction, that is occurring everywhere on Earth, that has the potential to change the environment at a rapid pace
Perspectives
This is a pretty cool work that highlights many examples of beneficial interactions of microbes with natural nanoparticles. I hope that many environmental microbiologist will read this and be wowed by the resourcefulness of the microbial world.
Muammar Mansor
Eberhard Karls Universitat Tubingen
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This page is a summary of: Benefits at the nanoscale: a review of
nanoparticle‐enabled
processes favouring microbial growth and functionality, Environmental Microbiology, August 2020, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.15174.
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