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Advances in Materials Science and Engineering
Volume 2015 (2015), Article ID 185071, 21 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/185071
Review Article

Raw Materials Synthesis from Heavy Metal Industry Effluents with Bioremediation and Phytomining: A Biomimetic Resource Management Approach

Salmah B. Karman,1,2 S. Zaleha M. Diah,1 and Ille C. Gebeshuber1,3

1Institute of Microengineering and Nanoelectronics, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600 Bangi, Malaysia
2Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
3Institute of Applied Physics, Vienna University of Technology, Wiedner Hauptstraße 8-10/134, 1040 Vienna, Austria

Received 17 July 2014; Accepted 5 September 2014

Academic Editor: George Z. Kyzas

Copyright © 2015 Salmah B. Karman et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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