New membrane types with well-controlled sub-nanostructures were developed from both polymeric and inorganic materials: carbon-based membranes, functionalized mesoporous oxide membranes and molecular sieving zeolite membranes. Regarding the carbon membranes, a novel carbon membrane with enhanced CO2 affinity was developed. The prepared membrane had a higher separation performance than that of th...

Edited by Reed M. Izatt. © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Published 2016 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Inorganic zeolites [1], mesoporous silica [2], and porous carbon [3] are useful materials because of their permanent porosity imparted by their architectural stability in the absence of guest molecules. The chemical functionalization and structure control of these classes of porous materials have b...

Plants assimilate inorganic sulphate for the bio­ synthesis of sulphur containing compounds. The enzymes required for reduction are found pre­ dominantly in the plastids which provide the necessary energy and the reductants. Sulphate re­ duction like nitrate or carbon dioxide assimilation is endergonic; for comparison, N 0 3 reduction to ammonia requires +347 kJ mol1 and C 0 2 re­ duction +478 ...

Conn (1942) observed that Alcaligenes faecalis required organic nitrogen, but as observed by Porter (1946) no report was found of a study of nitrogen compounds suitable for continued growth of A. faecalis. It was reported, however, that this organism grew in a medium containing NH4 lactate as a source of nitrogen and carbon (Braun and Cahn-Bronner, 1921), and used NH4NO3, asparagine, cysteine, ...

Various simplifications of the river water quality model no. 1 are applied to data sets from the river Glatt in Switzerland. In a first application, the biomass responsible for nitrogen and oxygen conversion processes is quantified based on known reaeration rates, measured concentrations of ammonia, nitrite and oxygen and assumed growth parameters of algae and bacteria. In a second application,...

17.2 Acquisition and Assimilation of Inorganic Carbon in Photolithotrophy ......................................................... 444 17.2.1 Inorganic Carbon in the Cyanobacterial Environment ...... 444 17.2.2 Mechanisms of Inorganic Carbon Acquisition and Assimilation by Cyanobacteria .................................. 447 17.2.3 Regulation of the CCM ...........................................

Of basic importance to the study of antibiotic production by microorganisms is a chemically defined medium in which the effect of various nutrients, both organic and inorganic, can be studied with a minimum of interference from ill-defined substances. Such a medium is reported here for the production of neomycin by Streptomyces fradiae, together with studies on the influence of various nitrogen...

Pyrrole is a heterocyclic aromatic organic compound, a five-membered ring with the formula C4H4NH. It is a colourless volatile liquid that darkens readily upon exposure to air. Substituted derivatives are also called pyrroles, e.g., N-methylpyrrole, C4H4NCH3. Porphobilinogen, a trisubstituted pyrrole, is the biosynthetic precursor to many natural products such as heme. A heterocyclic compound i...

elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide and other green house gases have increased the earth temperature in recent century, which it affects all biochemistry cycles in soils. to examine the effect of atmospheric co2 concentration and temperature on n forms in soil solution in a calcareous soil, an experiment was conducted in a completely randomized design with factorial arrangement in the laborator...

an airlift-type activated sludge reactor using a sponge support medium was fed with wastewater containing 500 mg-n/l of nh4 +-n. in order to establish partial nitrification, the reactor was kept at 35°c. moreover, the reactor was started up with the nahco3 solution as an alkali agent to supply inorganic carbon for enhancement of partial nitrification. the partial nitrification was established d...