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Sanz Landaluce, Jon

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Jon
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Sanz Landaluce
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/76209
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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Ciencias Químicas
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Química Analítica
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    Fate and effect of in-house synthesized tellurium based nanoparticles on bacterial biofilm biomass and architecture. Challenges for nanoparticles characterization in living systems
    (Science of the Total Environment, 2020) Gómez Gómez, Beatriz; Sanz Landaluce, Jon; Pérez Corona, María Teresa; Madrid Albarrán, María Yolanda
    The unexpected impact of nanoparticles on environment and human health remains as a matter of concern. In this sense, understanding the interaction between nanoparticles and biological indicators such as microorganism may help to understand their fate and effect in environmental systems. However, the adverse effect of nanoparticles greatly depends on their properties and, therefore, a precise evaluation of nanoparticles physicochemical characteristics is mandatory as the first step in accurately elucidating their behaviour in different ecosystems. Here in this work, in house-synthesized tellurium-based nanoparticles have been fully characterized for first time by means of a multi-method approach. Once characterized, the effect of these nanoparticles on Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli biofilm biomass and structure was explored and quantified for first time. Moreover, the morphological transformations of tellurium based nanoparticles within the confines of a biofilm are also highlighted. Architectural metric calculations evidenced that nanoparticles were able to reduce the biovolume of the biofilm produced for both bacteria. Interestingly, the interaction between nanoparticles and bacterial communities led to the transformation of telluriumnanoparticles from sphere to rod-shaped nanoparticles. These findings open new insights into the behaviour of a type of uncommon nanoparticles such as tellurium-based nanoparticles on microbial communities