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Arsenic poisoning

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Methylation of arsenic by single-species and soil-derived microbial cultures

Karen Elda Viacava Romo

Arsenic (As) is simultaneously a ubiquitous and a toxic element. Arsenic is subject to bio-transformations catalyzed by microorganisms constituting the As biogeochemical cycle. The primordial Earth was devoid of oxygen, exposing life to the highly mobile a ...

EPFL2020

Coupled As and Mn Redox Transformations in an Fe(0) Electrocoagulation System: Competition for Reactive Oxidants and Sorption Sites

Victor Carle Adrien Boureau, Sachiko Hirosue

Iron electrocoagulation (EC) can be used for the decentralized treatment of arsenic(As)-contaminated groundwater. Iron EC involves the electrolytic dissolution of an Fe(0) electrode to Fe(II). This process produces reactive oxidants, which oxidize As(III) ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Inkjet-Printed Carbon Nanotube Electrodes Modified with Dimer-captosuccinic Acid-Capped Fe3O4 Nanoparticles on Reduced Graphene Oxide Nanosheets for Single-Drop Determination of Trifluoperazine

Hubert Girault, Andreas Stephan Lesch, Milica Jovic

Here we report the design of a disposable single-drop voltammetric sensor for the quantitative determination of antipsy-chotic drug trifluoperazine (TFP). The sensor was build using inkjet-printed carbon nanotube (CNT) electrodes which were modified with d ...

2020

Chromate tolerance and removal of bacterial strains isolated from uncontaminated and chromium-polluted environments

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Zuzana Chromiková

Investigation of bacterial chromate tolerance has mostly focused on strains originating from polluted sites. In the present study, we isolated 33 chromate tolerant strains from diverse environments harbouring varying concentrations of chromium (Cr). All of ...

2019

A von Hamos spectrometer for in situ sulfur speciation by non-resonant sulfur K alpha emission spectroscopy

Dominik Kinschel

A von Hamos geometry based wavelength dispersive spectrometer combined with an in situ reactor cell has been developed to measure non-resonant sulfur K alpha emission for the in situ speciation of low concentrations of sulfur. The spectrometer operates at ...

2019

Arsenic methylation dynamics in a rice paddy soil anaerobic enrichment culture

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Julien Maillard, Alexandre Bagnoud, Matthew Charles Reid

Methylated arsenic (As) species represent a significant fraction of the As accumulating in rice grains, and there are geographic patterns in the abundance of methylated arsenic in rice that are not understood. The microorganisms driving As biomethylation i ...

Amer Chemical Soc2017

A Microfluidic Biodisplay

Sebastian Maerkl, Francesca Volpetti, Ekaterina Emilova Petrova

Synthetically engineered cells are powerful and potentially useful biosensors, but it remains problematic to deploy such systems due to practical difficulties and biosafety concerns. To overcome these hurdles, we developed a microfluidic device that serves ...

American Chemical Society2017

Mechanistic Modeling of Genetic Circuits for ArsR Arsenic Regulation

Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Yves Berset

Bioreporters are living cells that generate an easily measurable signal in the presence of a chemical compound. They acquire their functionality from synthetic gene circuits, the configuration of which defines the response signal and signal-to-noise ratio. ...

Amer Chemical Soc2017

Compact portable biosensor for arsenic detection in aqueous samples with Escherichia coli bioreporter cells

Philippe Renaud, Harald Van Lintel, Nina Buffi

We present a compact portable biosensor to measure arsenic As(III) concentrations in water using Escherichia coli bioreporter cells. Escherichia coli expresses green fluorescent protein in a linearly dependent manner as a function of the arsenic concentrat ...

Amer Inst Physics2014

Bioreporters and biosensors for arsenic detection. Biotechnological solutions for a world-wide pollution problem

Philippe Renaud, Nina Buffi

A wide variety of whole cell bioreporter and biosensor assays for arsenic detection has been developed over the past decade. The assays permit flexible detection instrumentation while maintaining excellent method of detection limits in the environmentally ...

Elsevier2013

Design and construction of a portable whole-cell living bacterial biosensor for the detection of arsenic in water

Nina Buffi

Contamination of drinking water with arsenic is a recurring problem in both industrialized and developing countries. Supplies for large populations can have concentrations much higher than the permissible levels, set by the World Health Organization (WHO) ...

EPFL2013

Electrochemical As(III) Whole-Cell Based Biochip Sensor

Hubert Girault, Fernando Cortes Salazar

The development of a whole-cell based sensor for arsenite detection coupling biological engineering and electrochemical techniques is presented. This strategy takes advantage of the natural Escherichia coli resistance mechanism against toxic arsenic specie ...

Elsevier2013

Development of a microfluidics biosensor for agarose-bead immobilized Escherichia coli bioreporter cells for arsenite detection in aqueous samples

Philippe Renaud, Harald Van Lintel, Nina Buffi

Contamination with arsenic is a recurring problem in both industrialized and developing countries. Drinking water supplies for large populations can have concentrations much higher than the permissible levels (for most European countries and the United Sta ...

2011

Miniaturized bacterial biosensor system for arsenic detection holds great promise for making integrated measurement device

Philippe Renaud, Harald Van Lintel, Nina Buffi

Combining bacterial bioreporters with microfluidics systems holds great promise for in-field detection of chemical or toxicity targets. Recently we showed how Escherichia coli cells engineered to produce a variant of green fluorescent protein after contact ...

2011

TEM investigation on zirconate formation and chromium poisoning in LSM/YSZ cathode

Jan Van Herle, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Antonin Faes, Josef Andreas Schuler, Zacharie Wuillemin

Cell durability is a crucial technological issue for SOFC commercialization, and considerable progress has been made in recent years. A number of degradation pathways have been established, amongst which microstructural changes, poisoning effects and forma ...

Springer Verlag2011

Localized Ion Implantation Through Micro/Nanostencil Masks

Jürgen Brugger, Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Oscar Vazquez Mena, Cristina Martin Olmos, Philippe Langlet

A method is presented that allows the deﬁnition of micrometer- and submicrometer-sized implanted structures in silicon without using photoresist patterning. The process is based on the use of stencils as masks in a conventional ion implanter, and is tested ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2011

Biochip with E. coli bacteria for detection of arsenic in drinking water

Philippe Renaud, Thomas Michael Braschler, Harald Van Lintel

Arsenic and other pollutants are often present in trace amounts in drinking water in a number of countries. In aqueous solutions the sensitivity of arsenic- responsive bacterial bioreporters is far better than the performance of chemical field test kits. H ...

Elsevier2009

Biochip with E-Coli bacteria for detection of arsenic in drinking water

Philippe Renaud, Thomas Michael Braschler, Harald Van Lintel

Arsenic and other pollutants are often present in trace amounts in drinking water in a number of countries. In aqueous solutions the sensitivity of arsenic-responsive bacterial bioreporters is far better than the performance of chemical field test kits. Ho ...

2009

Sulfur as pollutant species on the cathode side of a SOFC system

Jan Van Herle, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Josef Andreas Schuler

Sulfur poisoning in a strontium doped lanthanum cobaltite (LSC) cathode current collection layer was revealed in a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) tested in repeat-element and stack configuration. Sources of sulfur contamination, other than trace SOx in air, ...

2009

The biouptake and toxicity of arsenic species on the green microalga Chlorella salina in seawater

Vera Slaveykova-Startcheva

The present study focuses on the biouptake, biotransformations, and toxicity of arsenic species on the marine green alga Chlorella salina in seawater from the Bulgarian Black Sea coast. Exposure to equal concentrations of As(III) or As(V) led to equivalent ...

2008