#oildegradation — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #oildegradation, aggregated by home.social.
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Oil eating #microbes reshape droplets to optimize #biodegradation https://phys.org/news/2023-08-oil-microbes-reshape-droplets-optimize.html
#Alcanivorax borkumensis #biofilms enhance #OilDegradation by interfacial tubulation https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adf3345
"Initially, upon converging on a droplet, a sphere formed—but then finger-like protrusions formed, radiating out from the sphere, each completely covered with #bacteria. The result was much faster, more efficient consumption of the droplet."