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Nano Research 2023, 16(10): 12238-12245 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-023-5788-6
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Biomineralized nanoparticles for the immobilization and degradation of crude oil-contaminated soil

Show Author's Information Daoqing Liu1,  Qianwei Li2( ),  Enhui Liu2,  Miao Zhang2,  Jicheng Liu2,  Chunmao Chen2
Key Laboratory of Water and Sediment Sciences (Ministry of Education), College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing, State Key Laboratory of Petroleum Pollution Control, China University of Petroleum (Beijing), Beijing 102249, China
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Accidental oil leaks and spills often cause server soil pollution, and in situ remediation is a powerful and economical treatment technology. While during in situ remediation process, unpredicted migration of petroleum hydrocarbon in heterogeneous soil will lead to a long-term source of persistent aquifer contamination. To reduce the migration of petroleum hydrocarbon and effectively improve the in situ remediation efficiency, herein, fungal biomineralization strategy was proposed for the immobilization of petroleum contaminants. A ureolytic fungi strain with crude oil-degradation ability was screened and identified as Chaetomium globosum. When incubated in medium containing Ca2+ and crude oil, a mineral corona with spiny nanoparticles was formed at the edge of oil and the interface characters were analyzed using fluorescent pH and dissolved oxygen (DO) sensing films, respectively. Results indicated that biominerals preferred to aggregate around the edge of crude oil, providing favorable microenvironment for fungal growth and then leading to the increase of pH in the microenvironment, eventually accompanied by the formation of mineral corona. The mineral corona with numerous nanoparticles may act as a solid and stable shell, limiting or reducing the mobility of crude oil, and providing enough time for fungal biodegradation. After 28 days incubation, oil-contaminated soil treated with fungal biomineralization showed better immobilization ability for total petroleum hydrocarbon (TPH) under simulated acid-rain condition and higher TPH removal efficiency. This is the first demonstration for the immobilization of oil through fungal biomineralized nanoparticles, thus providing a novel strategy for the in situ remediation of oil-contaminated sites.


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Biomineralized nanoparticles for the immobilization and degradation of crude oil-contaminated soil

Show Author's information Daoqing Liu1, Qianwei Li2( ), Enhui Liu2, Miao Zhang2, Jicheng Liu2, Chunmao Chen2
Key Laboratory of Water and Sediment Sciences (Ministry of Education), College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing, State Key Laboratory of Petroleum Pollution Control, China University of Petroleum (Beijing), Beijing 102249, China

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Accidental oil leaks and spills often cause server soil pollution, and in situ remediation is a powerful and economical treatment technology. While during in situ remediation process, unpredicted migration of petroleum hydrocarbon in heterogeneous soil will lead to a long-term source of persistent aquifer contamination. To reduce the migration of petroleum hydrocarbon and effectively improve the in situ remediation efficiency, herein, fungal biomineralization strategy was proposed for the immobilization of petroleum contaminants. A ureolytic fungi strain with crude oil-degradation ability was screened and identified as Chaetomium globosum. When incubated in medium containing Ca2+ and crude oil, a mineral corona with spiny nanoparticles was formed at the edge of oil and the interface characters were analyzed using fluorescent pH and dissolved oxygen (DO) sensing films, respectively. Results indicated that biominerals preferred to aggregate around the edge of crude oil, providing favorable microenvironment for fungal growth and then leading to the increase of pH in the microenvironment, eventually accompanied by the formation of mineral corona. The mineral corona with numerous nanoparticles may act as a solid and stable shell, limiting or reducing the mobility of crude oil, and providing enough time for fungal biodegradation. After 28 days incubation, oil-contaminated soil treated with fungal biomineralization showed better immobilization ability for total petroleum hydrocarbon (TPH) under simulated acid-rain condition and higher TPH removal efficiency. This is the first demonstration for the immobilization of oil through fungal biomineralized nanoparticles, thus providing a novel strategy for the in situ remediation of oil-contaminated sites.

Keywords: degradation, biomineralization, nanomineral, nanoaggregates, immigration

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Received: 01 March 2023
Revised: 24 April 2023
Accepted: 29 April 2023
Published: 23 June 2023
Issue date: October 2023

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This study was supported by the National Natural Science Fundation of China (Nos. U20A20146 and 22278434), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 2462023BJRC006), and the National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2019YFC1806201-01).

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