A special issue on Microbial biomineralization will be hosted by the journal Geo-Bio Interfaces (Cambridge University Press).
The issue will be edited by:
Lucian Staicu, University of Warsaw, Poland (link)
Juan Liu, Peking University, Beijing, China (link)
Julie Cosmidis, University of Oxford, UK (link)
Jonathan Lloyd, The University of Manchester, UK (link)
The main goal of this collection is to focus on the fundamental and applied progress in microbial biomineralization, inviting contributions based on multidisciplinary studies and covering different research aspects such as:
- Biominerals resulting from microbial respiratory and detoxification processes;
- The importance of microbial biomineralization in the context of environmental depollution;
- The recovery of high value biominerals from secondary/waste resources such as industrial streams;
- The role and mechanisms of biomineralization on natural biogeochemical cycles;
- Biomineralization-inspired methods for medical applications, e.g. natural or synthetic bone mimetic materials or nanovaccine biomineralization.
Deadline for submissions: 29 February 2024
Geomicrobiology 