The progress and outlook of bioelectrocatalysis for the production of chemicals, fuels and materials

H Chen, F Dong, SD Minteer - Nature Catalysis, 2020 - nature.com
Bioelectrocatalysis is a green, sustainable, efficient method to produce value-added
chemicals, clean biofuels and degradable materials. As an alternative approach to modern …

Syntrophy goes electric: direct interspecies electron transfer

DR Lovley - Annual review of microbiology, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Direct interspecies electron transfer (DIET) has biogeochemical significance, and practical
applications that rely on DIET or DIET-based aspects of microbial physiology are growing …

Enhanced anaerobic wastewater treatment by a binary electroactive material: pseudocapacitance/conductance-mediated microbial interspecies electron transfer

M Wang, T Ren, M Yin, K Lu, H Xu… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Anaerobic digestion (AD) is a promising method to treat organic matter. However, AD
performance was limited by the inefficient electron transfer and metabolism imbalance …

Geobacter Protein Nanowires

DR Lovley, DJF Walker - Frontiers in microbiology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The study of electrically conductive protein nanowires in Geobacter sulfurreducens has led
to new concepts for long-range extracellular electron transport, as well as for the …

Direct interspecies electron transfer via conductive materials: A perspective for anaerobic digestion applications

JH Park, HJ Kang, KH Park, HD Park - Bioresource technology, 2018 - Elsevier
Anaerobic digestion (AD) is a microbial process that produces renewable energy in the form
of methane by treating organic waste and high-strength wastewater. Recent studies have …

Accelerating anaerobic digestion for methane production: Potential role of direct interspecies electron transfer

Z Wang, T Wang, B Si, J Watson, Y Zhang - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2021 - Elsevier
Anaerobic digestion is a commercial technology utilized to produce bioenergy from waste
streams. However, anaerobic digestion suffers from inefficient interspecies electron transfer …

Reverse methanogenesis and respiration in methanotrophic archaea

PHA Timmers, CU Welte, JJ Koehorst, CM Plugge… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM) is catalyzed by anaerobic methane‐oxidizing
archaea (ANME) via a reverse and modified methanogenesis pathway. Methanogens can …

Recent advances in bio-based carbon materials for anaerobic digestion: A review

Y Abbas, S Yun, Z Wang, Y Zhang, X Zhang… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
In recent years, the great interest in improving anaerobic digestion (AD) process resulted in
the use of different types of additives or accelerants to exploit several profitable synergies …

Happy together: microbial communities that hook up to swap electrons

DR Lovley - The ISME journal, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The discovery of direct interspecies electron transfer (DIET) and cable bacteria has
demonstrated that microbial cells can exchange electrons over long distances (μm–cm) …

Towards engineering application: Potential mechanism for enhancing anaerobic digestion of complex organic waste with different types of conductive materials

Z Zhao, Y Li, X Quan, Y Zhang - Water Research, 2017 - Elsevier
Conductive materials have been widely investigated to accelerate and stabilize the
conversion of organic wastes to methane. However, the potential mechanisms involved with …