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Comment on “Graphene oxide regulates the bacterial community and exhibits property changes in soil” by J. Du, X. Hu and Q. Zhou, RSC Advances, 2015, 5, 27009

Christian Forstner,a   Peng Wang,a   Peter M. Kopittkea  and  Paul G. Dennis*a  

* Corresponding authors

a School of Agriculture and Food Sciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
E-mail: p.dennis@uq.edu.au

Abstract

Human society is dependent on the provision of ecosystem goods and services mediated by soil organisms. It is important, therefore, to determine whether new and emerging materials influence the structure and function of soil biological communities. A recent study concerning the fate of the emerging nanomaterial, graphene oxide, in soil concluded that it promotes bacterial diversity. Here we demonstrate that due to issues with their experimental design and data analysis, their claim is unjustified.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C5RA26329H
Article type
Letter
Submitted
09 Dec 2015
Accepted
18 May 2016
First published
18 May 2016

RSC Adv., 2016,6, 51203-51204

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Comment on “Graphene oxide regulates the bacterial community and exhibits property changes in soil” by J. Du, X. Hu and Q. Zhou, RSC Advances, 2015, 5, 27009

C. Forstner, P. Wang, P. M. Kopittke and P. G. Dennis, RSC Adv., 2016, 6, 51203 DOI: 10.1039/C5RA26329H

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