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Enhanced accumulation of U(VI) by Aspergillus oryzae mutant generated by dielectric barrier discharge air plasma

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Aspergillus oryzae was isolated from radionuclides’ contaminated soils, and dielectric barrier discharge plasma was used to mutate A. oryzae to improve bioremediation capability of U(VI) pollution. The maximum accumulation capacities of U(VI) on mutated A. oryzae was 627.4 mg/g at T = 298 K and pH = 5.5, which was approximately twice than that of raw A. oryzae. XPS analysis indicated that U(VI) accumulation on mutated A. oryzae was largely attributable to nitrogen- and oxygen-containing functional groups on fungal mycelia. The mutated A. oryzae can be harnessed as bioremediation agents for radionuclides pollution.

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This research was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (21 577 032), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation funded project (2015M581047), the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions, the Collaborative Innovation Center of Radiation Medicine of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions are acknowledged.

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  1. Center of Medical Physics and Technology, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, 230031, People’s Republic of China

    Wencheng Song

  2. School of Environment and Chemical Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, 102206, People’s Republic of China

    Wencheng Song, Xiangxue Wang, Wen Tao & Xiangke Wang

  3. Collaborative Innovation Center of Radiation Medicine of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions, and School for Radiological and Interdisciplinary Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215123, People’s Republic of China

    Xiangxue Wang & Xiangke Wang

  4. School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of South China, Hengyang, 421001, Hunan, People’s Republic of China

    Hongqing Wang

  5. NAAM Research Group, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, 21589, Saudi Arabia

    Tasawar Hayat & Xiangke Wang

  6. Department of Mathematics, Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad, 44000, Pakistan

    Tasawar Hayat

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Song, W., Wang, X., Tao, W. et al. Enhanced accumulation of U(VI) by Aspergillus oryzae mutant generated by dielectric barrier discharge air plasma. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 310, 1353–1360 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-016-4934-y

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