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Column experiments were performed to investigate the effect of ionic strength on the attachment and detachment of Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 10537 and Bacillus subtilis ATCC 6633 in aluminum-coated quartz sand. Results showed that the average mass recovery decreased from 80.7 to 45.3% in quartz sand and remained constant in aluminum-coated sand with increasing ionic concentrations of sodium chloride solution from 1 to 100 mmol/L. As the ionic concentrations of leaching solution changed from 100 to 0.1 mmol/L, average mass recovery of 39.1% was obtained from quartz sand (bacterial release), but no detachment was observed from aluminum-coated sand. This lack of detachment can be attributed to inner-sphere complexes between bacteria and aluminum-coated sand, which are minimally affected by ionic strength. This research indicates that aluminum-coated sand has advantages over quartz sand in bacteria removal in water filtration systems. Water Environ. Res., 82, 499 (2010).

Nanofibrous adsorbents were fabricated by electrospinning with a blend solution of poly(acrylic acid) (PAA) and poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) polymers and used for copper (Cu(ii)) removal from industrial plating wastewater.