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Enhancement of U(VI) biosorption by Trichoderma harzianum mutant obtained by a cold atmospheric plasma jet

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Trichoderma harzianum (T. harzianum) was isolated from uranium mill tailing soils, and a cold atmospheric plasma jet as a mutational method was applied for the treatment of T. harzianum to improve its performance of U(VI) biosorption. The effects of pH, adsorption time and biosorbent doses were performed on the biosorption of U(VI) by T. harzianum and mutated T. harzianum at different environmental conditions. The maximum adsorbability for U(VI) on mutated T. harzianum was 83.59 mg/g at 303 K and pH 6.0, which was observably better than the raw T. harzianum. FTIR analysis indicated that the functional groups on the surface of mutated T. harzianum interacting with U(VI) were primarily hydroxyl, amino and carboxyl groups. SEM coupled with EDX analysis demonstrated that U(VI) can be adsorbed to mutated T. harzianum, and the surface of mutated T. harzianum became rough and incompact after the biosorption. This study showed that the mutated T. harzianum could be considered as a highly effective biosorbent for removal of U(VI) from radioactive wastewater.

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This research was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (22006001 and 21876179), the Key Project of Natural Scientific Research of Universities in Anhui Province (KJ2019A0914) and University Outstanding Young Scientific Research Talent Cultivation Program Project in Anhui Province (gxyq2020091).

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  2. Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Medical Physics and Technology, Institute of Health & Medical Technology, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, 230031, People’s Republic of China

    Lei Liu & Wencheng Song

  3. Hefei Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, 230031, People’s Republic of China

    Wencheng Song

  4. 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

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Liang, J., Liu, L. & Song, W. Enhancement of U(VI) biosorption by Trichoderma harzianum mutant obtained by a cold atmospheric plasma jet. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 327, 1325–1333 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-021-07615-0

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