About this Research Topic
With the continuous improvement of the level of scientific and technological innovation, many emerging materials and chemicals have come into our lives, which has brought great pressure to the environment and caused increasing number of contamination problems. Microbiotechnology is considered to be environmentally friendly and sustainable when dealing with contaminants and has been attracting tremendous attention. Considering the degradation period of contaminants and the mechanism conducted by microbes, oxidation and reduction reactions occur all the time, providing the most basic support for early warning and remediation using microbiotechnology. The appearance of contaminants is bound to break the balance of the original ecological environment, so how to monitor the existence of contaminants online, in situ and quickly will become one of the key issues in the early warning field, and how to realize the efficient degradation of contaminants by microbes will become one of the key difficulties in remediation field.
This Topic mainly focuses on the monitoring and remediation of contaminants in water, sediment, and soil using microbes and the mechanisms of the interaction between microbes and the surrounding environment. For early warning of contamination using microbes, various signals can be collected: bioelectrical signals through electron transfer, biochemical signals through material coupling, or biophysical signals through matrix changes. As for the remediation using microbes, pure bioremediation, phyto-bioremediation, electrically/chemically driven bioremediation and other improved bioremediations are well described. The continuous challenge is to design the processes to include nutrients recovery, which will be aided by further exploration through the interface between microbes and contaminants.
This Research Topic accepts Research and Review papers. The themes include but are not limited to:
1. Bio-electrical/chemical/physical sensors for environmental monitoring;
2. Microbial remediation for water, sediment, soil;
3. Interfacial bioeffect between microbes and surrounding environment;
4. Transfer and transformation of contaminants driven by microbes;
5. Nutrients recovery by microbial technology;
6. Waste catabolism pathways through microbial technology.
Please note all submitted manuscripts need to explore a clear hypothesis to be considered for review.
This Topic mainly focuses on the monitoring and remediation of contaminants in water, sediment, and soil using microbes and the mechanisms of the interaction between microbes and the surrounding environment. For early warning of contamination using microbes, various signals can be collected: bioelectrical signals through electron transfer, biochemical signals through material coupling, or biophysical signals through matrix changes. As for the remediation using microbes, pure bioremediation, phyto-bioremediation, electrically/chemically driven bioremediation and other improved bioremediations are well described. The continuous challenge is to design the processes to include nutrients recovery, which will be aided by further exploration through the interface between microbes and contaminants.
This Research Topic accepts Research and Review papers. The themes include but are not limited to:
1. Bio-electrical/chemical/physical sensors for environmental monitoring;
2. Microbial remediation for water, sediment, soil;
3. Interfacial bioeffect between microbes and surrounding environment;
4. Transfer and transformation of contaminants driven by microbes;
5. Nutrients recovery by microbial technology;
6. Waste catabolism pathways through microbial technology.
Please note all submitted manuscripts need to explore a clear hypothesis to be considered for review.
Keywords: Early warning, Microbial sensor, Microbial remediation, Water/Sediment/Soil treatment, Interfacial microbial-effect
Important Note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
