This research focused on finding out other bioleaching microbes which could synthesize magnetic particles except Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans YN-3and Leptospirillum ferriphilum YSK. This finding would widen the scope of the bioleaching microbes which could form magnetic particles.
First of all, magnetic force microscopy (MFM) was used to detect magnetism of four bioleaching microbes under different culture conditions in order to find out which microbe could form magnetic particles. Acidithiobacillus f...