ReviewRe/views in environmental science and bio/technology2022
Controlling pore-scale processes to tame subsurface biomineralization.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.
- Enhanced Manganese Oxidation at the Biofilm-Fluid Interface Drives Pore-Scale Patterns in Mineral Precipitation.Environmental science & technology · 2026Article
- Characterizing carbonate mineral-forming bacterial strains and their carbonic anhydrase activities in two coastal sabkhas.Biochemistry and biophysics reports · 2025Article
- Bio-Informed Porous Mineral-Based Composites.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2025Review
- Machine learning assists in increasing the time resolution of X-ray computed tomography applied to mineral precipitation in porous media.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Rapid formation of bioaggregates and morphology transition to biofilm streamers induced by pore-throat flows.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Highlighting Bacteria with Calcifying Abilities Suitable to Improve Mortar Properties.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Characterizing Natural Organic Matter Transformations by Microbial Communities in Terrestrial Subsurface Ecosystems: A Critical Review of Analytical Techniques and Challenges.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Review
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3 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Microorganisms capable of biomineralization can catalyze mineral precipitation by modifying local physical and chemical conditions. In porous media, such as soil and rock, these microorganisms live and function in highly heterogeneous physical, chemical and ecological microenvironments, with strong local gradients created by both microbial activity and the pore-scale structure of the subsurface. Here, we focus on extracellular bacterial biomineralization, which is sensitive to external heterogeneity, and review the pore-scale processes controlling microbial biomineralization in natural and engineered porous media. We discuss how individual physical, chemical and ecological factors integrate to affect the spatial and temporal control of biomineralization, and how each of these factors contributes to a quantitative understanding of biomineralization in porous media. We find that an improved understanding of microbial behavior in heterogeneous microenvironments would promote understanding of natural systems and output in diverse technological applications, including improved representation and control of fluid mixing from pore to field scales. We suggest a range of directions by which future work can build from existing tools to advance each of these areas to improve understanding and predictability of biomineralization science and technology.
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