Biofilms Enhance Oil Degradation By Interfacial Tubulation
Researchers from the University of Tsukuba in collaboration with French researchers have discovered that oil-degrading bacteria, widely found in the ocean, grow around oil droplets forming dense communities at the oil-water interface. These communities cooperate to bend and buckle the oil interface, which enlarges its area and thereby allows more bacterial cells to come into direct contact with the oil for efficient oil degradation. … Read more –> (University of Tsukuba Website - Press Release)
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Journal Publication - Science 【DOI】 10.1126/science.adf3345
Alcanivorax borkumensis Biofilms Enhance Oil Degradation By Interfacial Tubulation.
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