Microbially mediated metal corrosion

D Xu, T Gu, DR Lovley - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2023 - nature.com
A wide diversity of microorganisms, typically growing as biofilms, has been implicated in
corrosion, a multi-trillion dollar a year problem. Aerobic microorganisms establish conditions …

Marine biofilms: diversity, interactions and biofouling

PY Qian, A Cheng, R Wang, R Zhang - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2022 - nature.com
Marine biofilms are ubiquitous in the marine environment. These complex microbial
communities rapidly respond to environmental changes and encompass hugely diverse …

Direct microbial electron uptake as a mechanism for stainless steel corrosion in aerobic environments

E Zhou, F Li, D Zhang, D Xu, Z Li, R Jia, Y **, H Song… - Water research, 2022 - Elsevier
Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 is an attractive model microbe for elucidating the biofilm-metal
interactions that contribute to the billions of dollars in corrosion damage to industrial …

Nacre‐inspired metal‐organic framework coatings reinforced by multiscale hierarchical cross‐linking for integrated antifouling and anti‐microbial corrosion

Z Yu, X Li, X Li, B Zheng, D Li, D Xu… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A long‐standing quest in marine materials science has been the development of tough and
effective antifouling coatings for diverse surface protection. However, most commercial …

Accelerated Microbial Corrosion by Magnetite and Electrically Conductive Pili through Direct Fe0‐to‐Microbe Electron Transfer

Y **, E Zhou, T Ueki, D Zhang, Y Fan, D Xu… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Electrobiocorrosion, the process in which microbes extract electrons from metallic iron (Fe0)
through direct Fe0‐microbe electrical connections, is thought to contribute to the costly …

Extracellular electron transfer in microbial biocorrosion

T Gu, D Wang, Y Lekbach, D Xu - Current Opinion in Electrochemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
Biocorrosion by microbial biofilms is also termed microbiologically influenced corrosion
(MIC). For many decades in MIC research, people focused on corrosive metabolites. In the …

Extracellular Electron Exchange Capabilities of Desulfovibrio ferrophilus and Desulfopila corrodens

D Liang, X Liu, TL Woodard, DE Holmes… - Environmental …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Microbial extracellular electron transfer plays an important role in diverse biogeochemical
cycles, metal corrosion, bioelectrochemical technologies, and anaerobic digestion …

Microbiologically influenced corrosion inhibition mechanisms in corrosion protection: A review

Y Lou, W Chang, T Cui, J Wang, H Qian, L Ma, X Hao… - …, 2021 - Elsevier
Microbial activities can change the properties of biofilm/metal interfaces to accelerate or
decelerate the corrosion of metals in a given environment. Microbiologically influenced …

Gene sets and mechanisms of sulfate-reducing bacteria biofilm formation and quorum sensing with impact on corrosion

AK Tripathi, P Thakur, P Saxena, S Rauniyar… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) have a unique ability to respire under anaerobic conditions
using sulfate as a terminal electron acceptor, reducing it to hydrogen sulfide. SRB thrives in …

Electrotrophy: other microbial species, iron, and electrodes as electron donors for microbial respirations

DR Lovley - Bioresource technology, 2022 - Elsevier
Electrotrophy, the growth of microbes on extracellular electron donors, drives important
biogeochemical cycles and has practical applications. Studies of Fe (II)-based electrotrophy …