Inoculation with thermophiles enhanced the food waste bio-drying and complicated interdomain ecological networks between bacterial and fungal communities.

Bio-drying is a practical approach for treating food waste (FW). However, microbial ecological processes during treatment are essential for improving the dry efficiency, and have not been stressed enough. This study analyzed the microbial community succession and two critical periods of interdomain ecological networks (IDENs) during FW bio-drying inoculated with thermophiles (TB), to determine how TB affects FW bio-drying efficiency.

Impact of cranberry juice on initial adhesion of the EPS producing bacterium Burkholderia cepacia.

The impact of cranberry juice was investigated with respect to the initial adhesion of three isogenic strains of the bacterium Burkholderia cepacia with different extracellular polymeric substance (EPS) producing capacities, viz. a wild-type cepacian EPS producer PC184 and its mutant strains PC184rml with reduced EPS production and PC184bceK with a deficiency in EPS production. Adhesion experiments conducted in a parallel-plate flow chamber demonstrated that, in the absence of cranberry juice, strain PC184 had a significantly higher adhesive capacity compared to the mutant strains.

In situ kinetic study of zinc sulfide activation using a quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation (QCM-D).

We have studied the activation kinetics of zinc sulfide (ZnS) using silver as an activator by a quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation (QCM-D). The zinc sulfide coating on QCM-D sensor was shown to have similar crystallographic structure, composition, and surface properties as nature sphalerite through the characterization of X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and xanthate adsorption measurement using QCM-D. The activation of ZnS sensor by silver was confirmed by the mass increase in ZnS sensor coupled with subsequent xanthate adsorption during QCM-D measurement, the change of surface wettability, and the presence of Ag(2)S on the surface.