Will tomorrow's mineral materials be grown?
Abstract Biomineralization, the capacity to form minerals, has evolved in a great diversity of bacterial lineages as an adaptation to different environmental conditions and biological functions. Microbial biominerals often display original properties (morphology, composition, structure, association...
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| description | Abstract Biomineralization, the capacity to form minerals, has evolved in a great diversity of bacterial lineages as an adaptation to different environmental conditions and biological functions. Microbial biominerals often display original properties (morphology, composition, structure, association with organics) that significantly differ from those of abiotically formed counterparts, altogether defining the ‘mineral phenotype’. In principle, it should be possible to take advantage of microbial biomineralization processes to design and biomanufacture advanced mineral materials for a range of technological applications. In practice, this has rarely been done so far and only for a very limited number of biomineral types. This is mainly due to our poor understanding of the underlying molecular mechanisms controlling microbial biomineralization pathways, preventing us from developing bioengineering strategies aiming at improving biomineral properties for different applications. Another important challenge is the difficulty to upscale microbial biomineralization from the lab to industrial production. Addressing these challenges will require combining expertise from environmental microbiologists and geomicrobiologists, who have historically been working at the forefront of research on microbe–mineral interactions, alongside bioengineers and material scientists. Such interdisciplinary efforts may in the future allow the emergence of a mineral biomanufacturing industry, a critical tool towards the development more sustainable and circular bioeconomies. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-73cc31cec928495ab15152db48d4b1e82023-08-22T12:37:59ZengWileyMicrobial Biotechnology1751-79152023-09-011691713172210.1111/1751-7915.14298Will tomorrow's mineral materials be grown?Julie Cosmidis0Department of Earth Sciences University of Oxford Oxford UKAbstract Biomineralization, the capacity to form minerals, has evolved in a great diversity of bacterial lineages as an adaptation to different environmental conditions and biological functions. Microbial biominerals often display original properties (morphology, composition, structure, association with organics) that significantly differ from those of abiotically formed counterparts, altogether defining the ‘mineral phenotype’. In principle, it should be possible to take advantage of microbial biomineralization processes to design and biomanufacture advanced mineral materials for a range of technological applications. In practice, this has rarely been done so far and only for a very limited number of biomineral types. This is mainly due to our poor understanding of the underlying molecular mechanisms controlling microbial biomineralization pathways, preventing us from developing bioengineering strategies aiming at improving biomineral properties for different applications. Another important challenge is the difficulty to upscale microbial biomineralization from the lab to industrial production. Addressing these challenges will require combining expertise from environmental microbiologists and geomicrobiologists, who have historically been working at the forefront of research on microbe–mineral interactions, alongside bioengineers and material scientists. Such interdisciplinary efforts may in the future allow the emergence of a mineral biomanufacturing industry, a critical tool towards the development more sustainable and circular bioeconomies.https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.14298 |
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