Abstract
A novel cell immobilization technique is developed in which polyvinyl alcohol is crosslinked with boric acid with addition of an acrylamide as a polymerizing agent. The presence of the polymerizing agent overcomes the problem of swelling of PVA gels in aqueous solution. The new immobilization method was used to entrap a phenol-degrading microorganism, a species of Pseudomonas. Phenol was successfully degraded in a shake-flask test of the beads demonstrating that cell viability was maintained following the immobilization procedure.
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