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Article Dans Une Revue Environmental Science and Pollution Research Année : 2021

Magnetic properties of biogenic selenium nanomaterials

Rewati Dixit
Anirudh Gupta
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Norbert Jordan
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Shengqiang Zhou
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Dieter Schild
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Stephan Weiss
Rohan Jain
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Piet Lens
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Résumé

Bioreduction of selenium oxyanions to elemental selenium is ubiquitous; elucidating the properties of this biogenic elemental selenium (BioSe) is thus important to understand its environmental fate. In this study, the magnetic properties of biogenic elemental selenium nanospheres (BioSe-Nanospheres) and nanorods (BioSe-Nanorods) obtained via the reduction of selenium(IV) using anaerobic granular sludge taken from an upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor treating paper and pulp wastewater were investigated. The study indicated that the BioSe nanomaterials have a strong paramagnetic contribution with some ferromagnetic component due to the incorporation of Fe(III) (high-spin and low-spin species) as indicated by electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR). The paramagnetism did not saturate up to 50,000 Oe at 5 K, and the hysteresis curve showed the coercivity of 100 Oe and magnetic moment saturation around 10 emu. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and EPR evidenced the presence of Fe(III) in the nanomaterial. Signals for Fe(II) were observed neither in EPR nor in XPS ruling out its presence in the BioSe nanoparticles. Fe(III) being abundantly present in the sludge likely got entrapped in the extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) coating the biogenic nanomaterials. The presence of Fe(III) in BioSe nanomaterial increases the mobility of Fe(III) and may have an effect on phytoplankton growth in the environment. Furthermore, as supported by the literature, there is a potential to exploit the magnetic properties of BioSe nanomaterials in drug delivery systems as well as in space refrigeration.

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hal-03371079 , version 1 (08-10-2021)

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Rewati Dixit, Anirudh Gupta, Norbert Jordan, Shengqiang Zhou, Dieter Schild, et al.. Magnetic properties of biogenic selenium nanomaterials. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021, 28 (30), pp.40264-40274. ⟨10.1007/s11356-020-11683-2⟩. ⟨hal-03371079⟩
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