Today’s Wastes, Tomorrow’s Materials for Environmental Protection
Today’s Wastes, Tomorrow’s Materials for Environmental Protection
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10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.71-73.541
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2009-05
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L. Macaskie;I. Mikheenko;P. Yong;K. Deplanche;A. Murray;M. Paterson-Beedle;V. Coker;C. Pearce;R. S. Cutting;R. Pattrick;D. Vaughan;G. V. D. Laan;Jonathan R. Lloyd
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作者：
L. Macaskie;I. Mikheenko;P. Yong;K. Deplanche;A. Murray;M. Paterson-Beedle;V. Coker;C. Pearce;R. S. Cutting;R. Pattrick;D. Vaughan;G. V. D. Laan;Jonathan R. Lloyd
在过去的30年里，文献已经蓬勃发展的生物修复方法，从废物中去除重金属。贱金属和贵金属的价格大幅上涨。随着核能的复兴，铀已成为一种战略资源。其他“非碳能源”技术是由减少二氧化碳排放的需求驱动的。我们描述的“新生物湿法冶金”通过将废物转化为环境应用的新材料的概念将这些驱动因素结合起来。这种新材料，自下而上，在生物控制下形成纳米材料，可以被称为“功能性生物纳米材料”。这个新学科，包括废物处理沿着纳米催化或其他应用，可以概括为“环境生物纳米技术”。几个案例说明了这一概念的范围和潜力。
Over the past 30 years the literature has burgeoned with bioremediation approaches to heavy metal removal from wastes. The price of base and precious metals has dramatically increased. With the resurgence of nuclear energy uranium has become a strategic resource. Other ‘non-carbon energy’ technologies are driven by the need to reduce CO2 emissions. The ‘New Biohydrometallurgy’ we describe unites these drivers by the concept of conversion of wastes into new materials for environmental applications. The new materials, fashioned, bottom-up, into nanomaterials under biocontrol, can be termed ‘Functional Bionanomaterials’. This new discipline, encompassing waste treatment along with nanocatalysis or other applications, can be summarized as ‘Environmental Bionanotechnology’. Several case histories illustrate the scope and potential of this concept.