Takehiko Tsuruta
Hachinohe institute of Technology, Japan
Biography
Takehiko Tsuruta has his expertise in removal, separation and recovery of toxic and/or useful metal(s) from aqueous solution using microbial cells. He published, uranium removal (Tsuruta, 2002), thorium removal (Tsuruta, 2003), gold recovery (Tsuruta, 2004), lithium recovery (Tsuruta, 2005), rare earths separation (Tsuruta, 2005), cadmium removal (Tsuruta, 2014), and chromium removal (Tsuruta 2017).He was started researching in this field from 1991 as assistant professor of Miyazaki Medical college, Department of Chemistry. From 1998, he was transferred to Tohwa University, Department of Industrial Chemistry as Associate Professor. Now he is working Department of Life and Environmental Sciences at Hachinohe Institute of Technology as Professor.