Ultrafiltration Process in Disinfection and Advanced Treatment of Tertiary Treated Wastewater.

The paper presents the results of research on the use of ultrafiltration, using membranes of 200 and 400 kDa separation, for disinfection of municipal treated wastewater. The research was conducted on a fractional technical scale using real municipal treated wastewater from two large wastewater treatment plants treating most of the wastewater over the one-million polycentric Gdańsk agglomeration (1.2 million inhabitants).

Methods of Assessment of Metal Contamination in Bottom Sediments (Case Study: Straszyn Lake, Poland).

The concentrations of six metals (Zn, Cu, Pb, Ni, Cr, and Cd) were investigated in bottom sediments of Straszyn Lake (North Poland). This study was designed to determine a total content of metals and to assess their mobility and bioavailability. The sequential extraction was used to fractionate metals into five fractions: exchangeable, bound to carbonates, bound to Fe-Mn oxides, bound to organic matter, and residual.

Unraveling the functions of type II-prohibitins in Arabidopsis mitochondria.

In yeast and mammals, prohibitins (PHBs) are considered as structural proteins that form a scaffold-like structure for interacting with a set of proteins involved in various processes occurring in the mitochondria. The role of PHB in plant mitochondria is poorly understood. In the study, the model organism Arabidopsis thaliana was used to identify the possible roles of type-II PHBs (homologs of yeast Phb2p) in plant mitochondria.

Visualisation of morphological interaction of diamond and silver nanoparticles with Salmonella Enteritidis and Listeria monocytogenes.

Currently, medicine intensively searches for methods to transport drugs to a target (sick) point within the body. The objective of the present investigation was to evaluate morphological characteristics of the assembles of silver or diamond nanoparticles with Salmonella Enteritidis (G-) or Listeria monocytogenes (G+), to reveal possibilities of constructing nanoparticle-bacteria vehicles. Diamond nanoparticles (nano-D) were produced by the detonation method.

Visualization of interaction between inorganic nanoparticles and bacteria or fungi.

Purpose: The objective of the present investigation was to evaluate the morphologic characteristics of self-assemblies of diamond (nano-D), silver (nano-Ag), gold (nano-Au), and platinum (nano-Pt) nanoparticles with Staphylococcus aureus (bacteria) and Candida albicans (fungi), to determine the possibility of constructing microorganism-nanoparticle vehicles.

Methods: Hydrocolloids of individual nanoparticles were added to suspensions of S. aureus and C.

Thrombocompatibility of thin dielectric carbon film dependence on electron work function of metallic substrate material.

We demonstrate here for the first time the relationship between electron work function of metallic substrate material, used for coating with thin dielectric carbon (DC) film, and surface thrombocompatybility of this structure. Thin dielectric layers of DC, with thickness below 1 microm, were deposited on medical steel 316L, titanium alloy Ti6Al4V and titanium nitride (TiN) using the RFCVD method. The values of the DC coated metallic electrode potential in water and in serum and the number of adhered blood platelets to the DC coated metals depended on the electron work function (phiM) of the metallic substrate.