project objectives

"NanoPOP sets impulses according to sustainable strategies to secure maintainance of feedstocks of pecious metals and scarce soils" says Dr. Michael Bunge by the Institute of applied microbiology at JLU. " This is essential due to the suppy of feedstocks within the next years which will gain great importance for the industrial development in the field of high-technology.
The aim is to find an environmental benifitially alternative to the current applied conventionalley pyrometallurgical and hydrometallurgical techniques, being less sustainable and associated with a high energy demand or the usage of toxic chemicals.
Within the scope of this, a sustainable recycling and an economical competitive alternative for recovering precious metals out of metalliferous waste material and sewage shall be tested. In nanobiotechnological procedures scholars use heavy metals tollerant bacteria as recyclable producers. bacteria generate highly active nanocatalysists in an sustainable way, at the same time. Within this biotechnological process mirobiological growth, reduction of metal and formation of nanoparticles proceeds.