Improved growth and proliferation of hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria on halloysite clay pickering emulsions

Experiments were performed with the bacterial species, Alcanivorax borkumensis which use lower molecular weight alkanes as the chief carbon source. This dataset includes bacterial growth curves in the presence of halloysite clay nanotubes, measured in different ways. The absorbance was measured in a UV-Vis Spectrometer at 600 nm wavelength giving us a parameter commonly known as optical density. The amount of fluorescence emitted by resorufin, a compound that is the product of enzymatic hydrolysis of resazurin was also measured. This dataset supports the publication: Panchal, A., Swientoniewski, L.T., Omarova, M., Yu, T., Zhang, D., Blake, D.A., John, V., & Lvov, Y.M. (2018). Bacterial proliferation on clay nanotube Pickering emulsions for oil spill bioremediation. Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 164: 27-33. doi: 10.1016/j.colsurfb.2018.01.021.