Learning from nature: recovery of rare earth elements by the extremophilic bacterium Methylacidiphilum fumariolicum

Helena Singer; Robin Steudtner; Ignacio Sottorff; Björn Drobot; Arjan Pol; Huub J. M. Op den Camp; Lena J. Daumann

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Learning from nature: recovery of rare earth elements by the extremophilic bacterium Methylacidiphilum fumariolicum†

Helena Singer,^a Robin Steudtner,

^b Ignacio Sottorff,^a Björn Drobot,

^b Arjan Pol,^c Huub J. M. Op den Camp

^c and Lena J. Daumann

*^a

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^a Department of Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, 81377 München, Germany
E-mail: lena.daumann@lmu.de

^b Institute of Resource Ecology, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e.V., 01328 Dresden, Germany

^c Department of Microbiology, Research Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Abstract

We present the extremophilic bacterium Methylacidiphilum fumariolicum SolV as a platform for the recovery of rare earth elements (REE). Strain SolV is able to selectively extract the light REE from artificial industrial waste sources, natural REE-containing and post-mining waters. Upscaling, different media composition and accumulation over several cycles were successfully implemented, underlining the potential for bio-recovery of REE.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D3CC01341C
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 18 mar 2023
Accepted: 31 mai 2023
First published: 29 jun 2023
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Chem. Commun., 2023,59, 9066-9069

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Learning from nature: recovery of rare earth elements by the extremophilic bacterium Methylacidiphilum fumariolicum

H. Singer, R. Steudtner, I. Sottorff, B. Drobot, A. Pol, H. J. M. Op den Camp and L. J. Daumann, Chem. Commun., 2023, 59, 9066 DOI: 10.1039/D3CC01341C

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Learning from nature: recovery of rare earth elements by the extremophilic bacterium Methylacidiphilum fumariolicum†

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