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. 2019 Jul 16;9:10318. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-46560-7

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Kinetics of simultaneous metal ion removal. (A) Intracellular mercury accumulation (arrows) and deposition of metallic mercury nanospheres (M) by reduction of ionic mercury. (B) Similar kinetics of residual Hg after treatment of EH8’s activated sporangiospores with low (1 mg.L−1) and high (50 mg.L−1) concentrations5. (C) Similar kinetics of intracellular-fixed Hg at low (1 mg.L−1) and high (50 mg.L−1) concentrations. (D-F) Simultaneous removal of a metal mixture (>81–99% of Al, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Hg, Ni, Pb, U and Zn) by activated cell walls (CW, D), by activated spore mix (Sp, E) and by mixed microbiome (biofilm, Bf) grown on expanded clay spheres (F) of EH8, EH10 and EH11 (Fig. C.2) as well as enrichment of Au, Ag and Ti (Table 3). The fitted curve parameters with statistical significance are given in Table 2. Standard deviations of measurements (n = 3) at each data point were less than 5%.