Using yeast to sustainably remediate and extract heavy metals from waste waters

Our demand for electronic goods and fossil fuels has challenged our ecosystem with contaminating amounts of heavy metals, causing numerous water sources to become polluted. To counter heavy-metal waste, industry has relied on a family of physicochemical processes, with chemical precipitation being o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sun, George L., Reynolds, Erin. E., Belcher, Angela M
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biological Engineering
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2020
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/125875