Heavy metal pollution is insidious, long-term and irreversible, which seriously endangers the
environment and human health. Compared with physical and chemical remediation …

Travertine-depositing hot springs can generate various carbonate minerals with or without
the participation of microorganisms. They thus serve as good natural laboratories to study …

Phycocyanin is a water-soluble, blue-colored phycobiliprotein mainly found in cyanobacteria
and Rhodophyta. Major commercial interest exists on phycocyanin as an important …

The origin of early marine cements is still being debated as either abiotic, triggered by
evaporation and CO2 degassing, or microbially‐mediated. In particular, micritic envelopes …

The microbially induced carbonate precipitation (MICP) technique is widely used in soil
heavy metal pollution control. Microbial mineralization involves extended mineralization …

Recently, microdolomite grains with a diameter of about 30–150 m were discovered within
seep-related shallow gas hydrate in the eastern margin of the Japan Sea, and the …

Contributions of abiotic and biotic processes on travertine deposition are still not well‐
understood due to technical difficulties, despite that the travertines draw attention as …

Early marine cementation is a fundamental process for many characteristics of carbonates,
like the stabilisation of steep slopes. The genesis of early cements is often attributed to …

Sediments act as sinks of microplastics (MPs) derived from terrestrial ecosystems. However,
the fate and transport of MPs at the zone of sediment-overlying water in reservoir …

The study of CaCO3 polymorphism is of great significance for understanding the mechanism
of carbonate mineralization induced by bacteria and the genesis of carbonate rock …