INRS Eau, Terre et Environnement, Québec, Canada.
Chemosphere. 2011 Jan;82(4):489-94. doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2010.10.023. Epub 2010 Nov 4.
Nanotechnology has attracted a great interest in recent years due to its expected impact on many areas such as energy, medicine, electronics, and space industries. This review provides the state-of-art knowledge on the synthesis of nanoparticles by microorganisms including bacteria, fungi, actinomycetes, and yeast, and their effect on microbiological processes. The available microbes and their predicted nanoparticle biosynthesis mechanism, the conditions to control the size/shape and monodispersity of particles, and microbiological reaction rate enhancement using nanoparticles as catalysts are presented. The current limitations and future scope for specific research are also discussed.
近年来，纳米技术因其在能源、医学、电子和太空等领域的预期影响而引起了极大的兴趣。本文综述了微生物（包括细菌、真菌、放线菌和酵母）合成纳米粒子及其对微生物过程影响的最新知识。介绍了可用的微生物及其预测的纳米颗粒生物合成机制、控制颗粒大小/形状和单分散性的条件，以及使用纳米颗粒作为催化剂来提高微生物反应速率。还讨论了当前的局限性和特定研究的未来范围。
