The effect of ionic strength on the adsorption of H{sup +}, Cd{sup 2+}, Pb{sup 2+}, and Cu{sup 2+} by Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus licheniformis: A surface complexation model
- McGill Univ., Montreal, Quebec (Canada). Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Univ. of Notre Dame, IN (United States)
To quantify metal adsorption onto bacterial surfaces, recent studies have applied surface complexation theory to model the specific chemical and electrostatic interactions occurring at the solution-cell wall interface. However, to date, the effect of ionic strength on these interactions has not been investigated. In this study, the authors perform acid-base titrations of suspensions containing Bacillus subtilis or Bacillus licheniformis in 0.01 or 0.1 M NaNO{sub 3}, and they evaluate the constant capacitance and basic Stern double-layer models for their ability to describe ionic-strength-dependent behavior. The constant capacitance model provides the best description of the experimental data. The constant capacitance model parameters vary between independently grown bacterial cultures, possibly due to cell wall variation arising from genetic exchange during reproduction. The authors perform metal-B. subtilis and metal-B. licheniformis adsorption experiments using Cd, Pb, and Cu, and they solve for stability constants describing metal adsorption onto distinct functional groups on the bacterial cell walls. They find that these stability constants vary substantially but systematically between the two bacterial species at the two different ionic strengths.
- OSTI ID:
- 605718
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, Vol. 198, Issue 1; Other Information: PBD: 1 Feb 1998
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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