Marine biofilms: diversity, interactions and biofouling

PY Qian, A Cheng, R Wang, R Zhang - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2022 - nature.com
Marine biofilms are ubiquitous in the marine environment. These complex microbial
communities rapidly respond to environmental changes and encompass hugely diverse …

A global perspective on microplastics

RC Hale, ME Seeley, MJ La Guardia… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Society has become increasingly reliant on plastics since commercial production began in
about 1950. Their versatility, stability, light weight, and low production costs have fueled …

Seamlessly conductive Co (OH) 2 tailored atomically dispersed Pt electrocatalyst with a hierarchical nanostructure for an efficient hydrogen evolution reaction

KL Zhou, C Wang, Z Wang, CB Han, Q Zhang… - Energy & …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Single-atom catalysts (SACs) have exhibited extraordinary catalytic performance due to the
utmost atom utilization efficiency and unique electronic states via metal–support interactions …

A new anti-biofilm strategy of enabling arbitrary surfaces of materials and devices with robust bacterial anti-adhesion via a spraying modified microsphere method

J Hu, J Lin, Y Zhang, Z Lin, Z Qiao, Z Liu… - Journal of Materials …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Despite adopting diverse strategies and fabrication methods to prevent biofilm formation, the
existing sophisticated fabrication methods for sole wettable or smart surfaces and their …

Inspired by nature: Microbial production, degradation and valorization of biodegradable bioplastics for life-cycle-engineered products

O García-Depraect, S Bordel, R Lebrero… - Biotechnology …, 2021 - Elsevier
The global environmental pollution by micro-and macro-plastics reveals the consequences
of an extensive use of recalcitrant plastic products together with inappropriate waste …

[HTML][HTML] Microbial colonization in marine environments: overview of current knowledge and emerging research topics

G Caruso - Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2020 - mdpi.com
Microbial biofilms are biological structures composed of surface-attached microbial
communities embedded in an extracellular polymeric matrix. In aquatic environments, the …

The essentials of marine biotechnology

A Rotter, M Barbier, F Bertoni, AM Bones… - Frontiers In marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Coastal countries have traditionally relied on the existing marine resources (eg, fishing,
food, transport, recreation, and tourism) as well as tried to support new economic endeavors …

Anaerobic thiosulfate oxidation by the Roseobacter group is prevalent in marine biofilms

W Ding, S Wang, P Qin, S Fan, X Su, P Cai, J Lu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Thiosulfate oxidation by microbes has a major impact on global sulfur cycling. Here, we
provide evidence that bacteria within various Roseobacter lineages are important for …

The OceanDNA MAG catalog contains over 50,000 prokaryotic genomes originated from various marine environments

Y Nishimura, S Yoshizawa - Scientific Data, 2022 - nature.com
Marine microorganisms are immensely diverse and play fundamental roles in global
geochemical cycling. Recent metagenome-assembled genome studies, with particular …

Structure and function of the Arctic and Antarctic marine microbiota as revealed by metagenomics

S Cao, W Zhang, W Ding, M Wang, S Fan, B Yang… - Microbiome, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Background The Arctic and Antarctic are the two most geographically distant
bioregions on earth. Recent sampling efforts and following metagenomics have shed light …