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Electronic Nanomaterials for Plants: A Review on Current Advances and Future Prospects

Advanced Electronic Materials, EarlyView.
Global food security faces mounting challenges from climate change and rapid population growth. This review highlights the pivotal role of electronic nanomaterials–including metals, metal oxides, and carbon‐based structures–in enhancing plant photosynthesis, nutrient uptake, and stress resilience. Furthermore, it explores how emerging platforms such as
Ciro Allará, Giuseppe Ciccone, Manuela Ciocca, Sahira Vasquez, Pietro Ibba, Mauro Maver, Tanja Mimmo, Paolo Lugli, Luisa Petti   +8 more
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Improving Dispersion of Bacterial Endospores for Enumeration

KONA Powder and Particle Journal, 2015
Precise enumeration of spores is crucial for accurate evaluation of spore survival in the presence of inactivating agents or extreme environmental conditions. Bacterial endospores tend to agglomerate, leading to low estimates of spore numbers.
Vijay B. Krishna, Jue Zhao, Smithi Pumprueg, Ben L. Koopman, Brij M. Moudgil   +4 more
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Toward Sustainable, High‐Performance, and Scalable On‐Chip Biopower: Microbial Biobatteries with 3D‐Printed Stainless Steel Anodes and Spore‐Based Biocatalysts

Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research, EarlyView.
This study presents the first integration of 3D‐printed stainless‐steel gyroid scaffolds with spore‐based biocatalysts in microscale bioenergy devices, addressing key challenges in microbial‐electronic interfacing. Motivated by the need for sustainable power in IoT systems, the work advances biobatteries toward real‐world use, offering shelf‐stability,
Anwar Elhadad, Yang Gao, Guangfa Li, Jiaqi Yang, Dehao Liu, Seokheun Choi   +5 more
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Surface appendages of bacterial spores [PDF]

Molecular Microbiology, 2006
SummaryBacilli and Clostridia generate dormant, highly resistant cells, called spores, in response to stress. Spores of many species are decorated by morphologically diverse structures of unknown function called appendages that have yet to be studied at the molecular level. In this issue, Walker et al. employ reverse genetics to identify genes encoding
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Enhancing Microrobot Swarm Stability and Adaptation by Autonomous Field‐of‐View Planning

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This work presents an adaptive cross‐field‐of‐view navigation strategy for microrobot swarms in large‐scale workspaces by integrating global path planning via A* and local replanning using optimized informed rapidly‐exploring random tree star . The hybrid approach ensures efficient and robust trajectory execution in dynamic environments, enhancing the ...
Zhaowen Su, Lijun Fang, Hoyeon Kim, U. Kei Cheang   +3 more
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Clostridium sordellii outer spore proteins maintain spore structural integrity and promote bacterial clearance from the gastrointestinal tract.

PLoS Pathogens, 2018
Bacterial spores play an important role in disease initiation, transmission and persistence. In some species, the exosporium forms the outermost structure of the spore and provides the first point of contact between the spore and the environment.
Rebecca Rabi, Sarah Larcombe, Rommel Mathias, Sheena McGowan, Milena Awad, Dena Lyras   +5 more
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Exploiting agricultural residues for sustainable bioconversion: production of cellulolytic and lignin‐degrading enzymes

Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining, EarlyView.
Abstract Agroindustrial activity generates substantial waste during harvesting and processing. This study investigated the potential use of sugarcane bagasse, corn cob husk, and wheat bran as substrates for enzyme production by Aspergillus niger and Ceriporiopsis subvermispora. Aspergillus niger and C. subvermispora exhibited comparable filter paperase
Arianne Tairyne de Souza, Ana Cláudia Bernardes Silva, Cristiane Medina Finzi Quintão, Flávia Donária Reis da Gonzaga, Sandra de Cássia Dias   +4 more
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Single‐cell nanoencapsulation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae with metal–organic complex nanoshells of Fe3+ and benzenehexacarboxylic acid

Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society, EarlyView.
The cell‐in‐shell (CiS) structures are synthesized for Saccharomyces cerevisiae, with the metal–organic complex of Fe3+ and benzenehexacarboxylic acid (Fe3+‐BHC MOC), the nanoshell of which has a unique characteristic of controllable compositional‐transformation to Fe3+‐phosphate in addition to cytocompatibility, cytoprotectability, and degradability ...
Sang Yeong Han, Yoonho Jeong, Hojae Lee, Insung S. Choi   +3 more
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Micro/nanorobots for detecting and eliminating biological and chemical warfare agents

BMEMat, EarlyView.
Fuel‐powered and field‐driven micro/nanorobots provide a cutting‐edge platform to safeguard national security and defense. This review reports the latest research progress in micro/nanorobots in sensing and detoxifying biological and chemical warfare agents.
Song Li, Huaijuan Zhou, Di Shi, Zdeněk Sofer, Jinhua Li   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The combination of recombinant and non-recombinant Bacillus subtilis spore display technology for presentation of antigen and adjuvant on single spore

Microbial Cell Factories, 2017
Background Bacillus subtilis spores can be used for presentation of heterologous proteins. Two main approaches have been developed, the recombinant one, requiring modification of bacterial genome to express a protein of interest as a fusion with spore ...
Wojciech Potocki, Alessandro Negri, Grażyna Peszyńska-Sularz, Krzysztof Hinc, Michał Obuchowski, Adam Iwanicki   +5 more
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