Among the various approaches, the use of engineered nanostructures is currently the most promising strategy to overcome microbial drug resistance by improving the remedial efficiency due to their high surface-to-volume ratio and their intrinsic or chemically incorporated antibacterial activity.
Consolidated bioprocessing, or CBP, is one of the most promising and widely recognized strategies for the microbial conversion of lignocellulosic biomass into products of interest [ 1], with thermophilic, cellulolytic bacteria often considered in this context.
Although air sparging, chemical oxidation, and steam flooding may generate an aerobic environment suitable for subsequent metabolic or co-metabolic oxidation, SEAR and co-solvent flushing appear to be the most promising physical chemical treatments for integration with the microbial reductive dechlorination process.
Initially, strains isolated from seawater of the port of Suape – PE were subjected to a test to assess the occurrence of microbial interactions and then microbial consortia were mounted and the most promising consortium was selected by redox indicators.
Our growing knowledge on such characteristics might facilitate the engineering and optimization of microbial granulation as one of the most promising techniques in biological wastewater treatment.
Although several approaches have been tried to enhance microbial hydrogen productivity, genetic engineering technologies for most promising microorganisms are either unavailable or severely limited.
Air-cathode microbial fuel cells (MFCs) was one of most promising sustainable new energy device as well as an advanced sewage treatment technology, and thoroughly studies have been devoted to lower its cost and enhance its power generation.
However, compared to pure microbial culture MFCs, mixed culture still exhibited the most promising stable power generation for long-term operation (Hassan et al. 2017; Ishii et al. 2017).
Rubin's postdoctoral fellows Matthias Hess and Alex Sczyrba used one of the most promising large-scale bioenergy crops — switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) – and let the cows' microbial symbionts located in the foregut perform their magic.
